Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes.
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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
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How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.
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The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
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Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
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Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
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Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.