Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.
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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
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The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
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As the world leads we follow.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
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Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
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Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
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All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
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Every journey has an end.
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It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.
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I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
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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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It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
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Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it.