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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.”
“On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.”
“Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.”
“Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.”
“Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent”
“Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.”
“It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.”
“Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.”
“No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.”
“When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.”
“Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.”
“There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.”
“I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.”
“The guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.”
“Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.”
“Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts”
“Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.”
“Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.”
“A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.”