Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
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A troubled countenance oft discloses much.
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Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
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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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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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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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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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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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Love of action is not industry.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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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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Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged
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No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
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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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The best cure for anger is delay.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
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True love can fear no one.
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Simple is the language of truth.