Seneca the Younger Quotes

• Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

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• Tis a human trait to hate one you have wronged.

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• 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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• Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

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• A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

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• For greed, all nature is too little.

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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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• God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.

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• Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

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• That grief is light which can take counsel.

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

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• Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.

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• 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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• He is most powerful who has power over himself.

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• No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us..

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• Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

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• Fear drives the wretched to prayer.

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

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

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• Time heals what reason cannot.

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