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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary”
“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”
“It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.”
“Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.”
“Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.”
“Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.”
“Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.”
“Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.”
“So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.”
“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
“Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.”