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Seneca The Younger Quotes

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To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Life’s neither a good nor an evil: it’s a field for good and evil  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) 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 Quotes) He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) If ever you come upon a grove of ancient trees which have grown to an exceptional height, shutting out a view of sky by a veil of pleached and intertwining branches, then the loftiness of the forest, the seclusion of the spot and your marvel at the thick unbroken shade in the midst of the open spaces, will prove to you the presence of deity  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeable air ringing in their ears to the exclusion of all serious business  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Lightning will wreck its displeasures not only upon pillars, trees, and sheep, but upon altars and temples, and let the sacrilegious go free  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it  (Seneca The Younger Quotes) Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it  (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
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