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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.”
“So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.”
“What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?”
“We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.”
“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.”
“A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.”
“The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.”
“It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.”
“You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.”
“That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.”
“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”
“He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.”
“The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.”