Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
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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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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
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There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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As was his language so was his life.
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Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Truth never perishes.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
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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.
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The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.
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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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Unjust rule does not last forever.
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.