Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who fears from near at hand often fears less.
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It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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Nature ever provides for her own exigencies.
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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
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People do not die - they kill themselves.
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Dignity increases more easily than it begins.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
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Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.
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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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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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True love can fear no one.
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Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
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Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
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There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.