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Seneca The Younger Inspirational Quotes (668)

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Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.
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We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
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The gladiator is formulating his plan in the arena or essentially Too late.
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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If you would judge, understand.
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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
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Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.
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Life without the courage for death is slavery.
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He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
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One must take all one's life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one's life to learn how to die.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own.
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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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