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Seneca The Younger Inspirational Quotes (670)

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Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
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We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. True happiness is ... to enjoy the present It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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True praise comes often even to the lowly false praise only to the strong.
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There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.
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Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Drunkenness does not create vice it merely brings it into view.
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He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.
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Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
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Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Ignorance is the cause of fear.
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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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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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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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Those alone are wise who know how to love.
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I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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