Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
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Everything hangs on one's thinking.
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The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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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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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.