Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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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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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life that is all made up for show; for it is torturous to be constantly watching oneself and be fearful of being caught out of our usual role. And we are never free from concern if we think that every time anyone looks at us he is always taking-our measure; for many things happen that strip off our pretence against our will, and, though all this attention to self is successful, yet the life of those who live under a mask cannot be happy and without anxiety.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.