Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.
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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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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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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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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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He worships God who knows him.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.