Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
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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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Resistance to oppression is second nature.
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Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
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Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.
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In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
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Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.
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Abstinence is easier than temperance.
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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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A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
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There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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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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This life is only a prelude to eternity.
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.