Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Our fears vanish as the danger approaches.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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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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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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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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Consider an enemy may become a friend.
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The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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As many servants so many enemies.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.