Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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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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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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It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
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Whom the dawn sees proud, evening sees prostrate.
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Expediency often silences justice.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
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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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A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.
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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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Whom they have injured they also hate.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving.
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An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.
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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
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Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
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Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.