Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
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It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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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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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
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We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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Self-denial is the best riches.
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If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
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It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.
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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.
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No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.