Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
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Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.
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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
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Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Live among others as if God beheld you; speak to God as if others were listening.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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Expediency often silences justice.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the study of so vast a subject. A time will come when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them.
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There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. For it has never been in his power to try himself.