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Seneca The Younger Inspirational Quotes (668)

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All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.
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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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No man was ever wise by chance.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
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There is no power greater than true affection.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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Simple is the language of truth.
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It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
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So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are to follow.
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There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living there is nothing harder to learn.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.
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We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
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The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
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No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.
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