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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
the Younger Seneca
Lucio Anneo Seneca
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior
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More quotes by Seneca the Younger
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
Seneca the Younger
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
Seneca the Younger
Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
Seneca the Younger
Learn how to feel joy.
Seneca the Younger
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
Seneca the Younger
A great step toward independence is a good-humoured stomach.
Seneca the Younger
Slavery holds few men fast the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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 language of truth is unvarnished enough.
Seneca the Younger
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
Seneca the Younger
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
Seneca the Younger
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
Seneca the Younger
He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.
Seneca the Younger
He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
Seneca the Younger
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.
Seneca the Younger
In every good man a God doth dwell.
Seneca the Younger
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.
Seneca the Younger
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Seneca the Younger
Simple is the language of truth.
Seneca the Younger
