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Seneca the Younger

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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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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
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Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
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No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.
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Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
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True friends are the whole world to one another and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.
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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say let speech harmonize with life.
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You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
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Golden roofs break men's rest.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
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