Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
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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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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
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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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Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.
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Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.
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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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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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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
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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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No one can have all he desires.
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I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.
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Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.