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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.”
“It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.”
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”
“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”
“If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.”
“Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.”
“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.”
“It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.”
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
“True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”
“There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.”
“If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.”
“It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.”
“Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.”
“A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”
“Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.”
“It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.”
“Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.”
“It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.”
“It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.”