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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.”
“How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.”
“He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.”
“He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.”
“The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.”
“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.”
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.”
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
“What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.”
“To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.”
“Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.”
“There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.”
“What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?”
“He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.”