Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.
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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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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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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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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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Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
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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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Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
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The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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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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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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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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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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It is opportunity that makes the thief.
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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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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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See what daily exercise does for one.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.