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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.”
“Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.”
“The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.”
“A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.”
“People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.”
“He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.”
“It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.”
“Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.”
“Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.”
“Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.”
“...nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.”
“The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.”
“The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.”