Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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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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It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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After death there is nothing.
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He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.
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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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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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A hated government does not long survive.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.
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I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.