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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.”
“There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.”
“There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.”
“These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.”
“It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.”
“You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.”
“Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws.”
“We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.”
“The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.”
“The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.”
“I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.”
“The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today”
“Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.”