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Seneca the Younger
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More quotes by Seneca the Younger
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
Seneca the Younger
Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
Seneca the Younger
The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
Seneca the Younger
Time is the greatest remedy for anger.
Seneca the Younger
Golden roofs break men's rest.
Seneca the Younger
The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
Seneca the Younger
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Seneca the Younger
What you think is the summit is only a step up
Seneca the Younger
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
Seneca the Younger
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.
Seneca the Younger
There is no genius free from some tincture of madness
Seneca the Younger
The fear of war is worse than war itself.
Seneca the Younger
The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
Seneca the Younger
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Seneca the Younger
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Seneca the Younger
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
Seneca the Younger
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
Seneca the Younger
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Seneca the Younger
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
Seneca the Younger
It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
Seneca the Younger
