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Seneca the Younger
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More quotes by Seneca the Younger
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
Seneca the Younger
Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
Seneca the Younger
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
Seneca the Younger
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Seneca the Younger
It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
Seneca the Younger
A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
Seneca the Younger
When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
Seneca the Younger
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
Seneca the Younger
No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
Seneca the Younger
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Seneca the Younger
A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
Seneca the Younger
I would rather be sick than idle.
Seneca the Younger
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.
Seneca the Younger
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
Seneca the Younger
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Seneca the Younger
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
Seneca the Younger
The best ideas are common property.
Seneca the Younger
A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Seneca the Younger
Self-denial is the best riches.
Seneca the Younger
True friends are the whole world to one another and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
Seneca the Younger
