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Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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This body is not a home, but an inn and that only for a short time.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style.
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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There exists no more difficult art than living.
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The way to good conduct is never too late.
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Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
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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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