Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
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Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Happy he whoe'er, content with the common lot, with safe breeze hugs the shore, and, fearing to trust his skiff to the wider sea, with unambitious oar keeps close to the land.
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
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Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.
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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
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When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?"
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
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A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.