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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.”
“Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.”
“If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.”
“The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom - that deed and word should be in accord.”
“The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it”
“Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.”
“The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.”
“Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.”
“Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.”
“There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.”
“He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.”
“We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.”
“The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable”
“I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.”
“It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.”
“They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
“The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.”