Seneca the Younger Quotes
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
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Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
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The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
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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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Men's language is as their lives.
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So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
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Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.
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What else is nature but God?
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Whom they have injured they also hate.
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It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.
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A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
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God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.
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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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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
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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.