Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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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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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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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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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
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Mercy often inflicts death.
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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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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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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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As many servants so many enemies.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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Our life's a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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No one can have all he desires.
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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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The miserable are sacred.
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Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.