Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Praise thyself never.
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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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What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.
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True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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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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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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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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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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No man ever became wise by chance.
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It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.