Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whom they have injured they also hate.
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Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
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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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You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
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All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.
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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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I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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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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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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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 acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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After death there is nothing.
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Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free.
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Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.
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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.