Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.
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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
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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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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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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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The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.