Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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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.
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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To meditate an injury is to commit one.
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Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
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Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.