Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.
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It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
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Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Nothing is ours except time.
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That grief is light which can take counsel.
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We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.
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Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Man is a social animal.
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Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
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To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
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If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.
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Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.
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Fine conduct is always spontaneous.
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A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
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Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.