Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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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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We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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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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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
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Find a path or make one.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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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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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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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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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult