Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
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If you don't know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.
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Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain.
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Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
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The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
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Resistance to oppression is second nature.
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We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes.... The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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You are your choices.
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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.