Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
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The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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A hated government does not long survive.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.
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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.
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All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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As the world leads we follow.
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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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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.