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Seneca The Younger Inspirational Quotes (668)

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Everything may happen.
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He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
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Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time
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It is sweet to mingle tears with tears Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
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A good mind possesses a kingdom.
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
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The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Necessity is stronger than duty.
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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