Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
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It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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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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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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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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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.
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It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.
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Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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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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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.
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Love of action is not industry.
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The best cure for anger is delay.
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.