No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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