Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
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It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
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Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.
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Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
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It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
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The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
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This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.
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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
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The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business.
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Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
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There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!
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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
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With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.