Seneca the Younger Quotes

• The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.

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• Whatever begins, also ends.

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• The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it’s the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that’s weighed.

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• Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

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• The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

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• To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none.

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• A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

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• Time heals what reason cannot.

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• The worse a person is the less he feels it.

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• Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor.

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• Fear drives the wretched to prayer.

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• Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters

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• The sun also shines on the wicked.

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• Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil.

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• It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.

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• So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

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• Injustice never rules forever.

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• Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

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• We learn not in the school, but in life.

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• Whom they have injured they also hate.

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