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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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More quotes by Seneca the Younger
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
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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.
Seneca the Younger
The fortune of war is always doubtful.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
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Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Seneca the Younger
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
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Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.
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There is no power greater than true affection.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.
Seneca the Younger
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
Seneca the Younger
We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.
Seneca the Younger
Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
Seneca the Younger
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
Seneca the Younger
We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.
Seneca the Younger
We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
Seneca the Younger
Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
Seneca the Younger
