Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
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A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The abundance of books is distraction
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
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Men practice war; beasts do not.
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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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Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
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A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
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Some pretend want of power to make a competent return; and you shall find in others a kind of graceless modesty, that makes a man ashamed of requiting an obligation, because it is a confession that he has received one.
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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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.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.