“Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
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Famous Seneca the Younger Quotes
“It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.”
“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
“True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
“See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.”
“May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.”
“Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.”
“There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.”
“You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.”
“That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.”
“Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.”
“He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.”
“The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.”
“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.”
“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.”
“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”