Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Self-denial is the best riches.
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Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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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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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
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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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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.