Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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What else is nature but God?
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
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True love can fear no one.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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We are born subjects, and to obey God is perfect liberty. He that does this shall be free, safe and happy.
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Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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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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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
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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.