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Seneca The Younger Quotes

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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) If you don’t know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) 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 Quotes) Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) 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  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) The place one’s in, though, doesn’t make any contribution to peace of mind: it’s the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more  (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
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