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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.”
“The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.”
“When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.”
“Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.”
“The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!”
“To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-”
“The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.”
“What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed”
“The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.”
“The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you”
“The mind makes the nobleman, and uplifts the lowly to high degree.”
“Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.”
“No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.”
“There is no fair wind for one who knows not whither he is bound.”
“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
“The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.”
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.”
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”