Seneca the Younger Quotes
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As was his language so was his life.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it.
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Men practice war; beasts do not.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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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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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
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Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
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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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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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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.