Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
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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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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
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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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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
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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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We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.
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Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
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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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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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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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Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.