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Seneca The Younger Quotes
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Fortune’s not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Freedom can’t be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface, and though doomed eventually to pass into the same silence, will fight against oblivion and for a long time hold their own (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Our life’s a moment and less than a moment, but even this mite nature has mockingly humored with some appearance of a longer span (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it’s his own (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
It’s the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There’s no delight in owning anything unshared (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one’s around to observe them (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged (Seneca The Younger Quotes)
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh (Seneca The Younger Quotes)