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Seneca The Younger Inspirational Quotes (670)

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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
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The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure if any one returns it, that is clear gain if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
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Life is short and art is long.
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue the good become the slaves of the wicked might makes right fear silences the power of the law.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
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The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others the right way to gather is to scatter.
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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