Seneca the Younger Quotes

• I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

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• Death’s the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

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• The willing, Destiny guides them; the unwilling, Destiny drags them.

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• Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

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• He who profits by a crime commits it.

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• He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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• Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

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• Life without the courage for death is slavery.

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• Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

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• If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

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• People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone’s reach to live nobly, but within no one’s reach to live long.

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• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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• Laws do not persuade because they threaten.

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• Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

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• Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel: so we begin, that presently find kingdoms not enough for us.

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• In every good man a God dwell.

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• No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

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• You are your choices.

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• Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

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• There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

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