Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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As was his language so was his life.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.
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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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Truth never perishes.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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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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Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
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Life is short and art is long.
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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved