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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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More quotes by Seneca the Younger
You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
Seneca the Younger
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
Seneca the Younger
Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
Seneca the Younger
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.
Seneca the Younger
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Seneca the Younger
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
Seneca the Younger
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Seneca the Younger
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy he is unhappy who does something against his will.
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Whatsoever has exceeded its proper limit is in an unstable position.
Seneca the Younger
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.
Seneca the Younger
The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.
Seneca the Younger
He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
Seneca the Younger
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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 a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
Seneca the Younger
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Seneca the Younger
Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.
Seneca the Younger
