Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
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Men's language is as their lives.
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Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
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Do what you should, not what you may.
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
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Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance.
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True love can fear no one.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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While we wait for life, life passes
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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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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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Teach the art of living well.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.