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Seneca The Younger Inspirational Quotes (668)

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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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As was his language so was his life.
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It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
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It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
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A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
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That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
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We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.
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Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
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Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
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Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?
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No man ever became wise by chance.
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