Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
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No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing.
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
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The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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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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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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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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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.
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As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.
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No one can have all he desires.
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It is opportunity that makes the thief.