Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
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It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
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As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves
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To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
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You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
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To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.
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He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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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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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.
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It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
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The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.
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A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.