Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To make a commencement requires a mental effort.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.
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No possession is gratifying without a companion.
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We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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He worships God who knows him.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
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During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ... Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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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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The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.