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Seneca The Younger Inspirational Quotes (670)

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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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Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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This life is only a prelude to eternity.
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The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
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The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
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Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
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The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
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The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.
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