Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While we wait for life, life passes
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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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I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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Full of men, vacant of friends.
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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.
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Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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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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Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
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The way to good conduct is never too late.
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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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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Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.