Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
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You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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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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To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.
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It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.
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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
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The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
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Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
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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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Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
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The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of a slave as well as of a prince: it came from heaven, and to heaven it must return; and it is a kind of heavenly felicity, which a pure and virtuous mind enjoys, in some degree, even upon earth.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
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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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It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
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The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.