Seneca the Younger Quotes

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  Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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  Topics in Religion

• I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Who makes timid requests, invites denial.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• It is for life, not for school that we learn.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• Men learn while they teach.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• The way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• It is equally unsound to trust everyone and to trust no one.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

• True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient.

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  Topics in God, Inspirational

  Tags in Happiness

• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Opportunity

• For greed, all nature is too little.

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Greed

• No man ever became wise by chance.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Chance, Man

• To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Well, Part

• Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.

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  Topics in Friendship, Love

• Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Present, Enjoy

• Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Just, Select

• The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

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  Topics in Life

• While we teach, we learn.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teach

• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Madness
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  We live not according to reason, but according to fashion.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fashion, According

• It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Book

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