In every good man a God doth dwell.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Every journey has an end.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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