May Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

— Seneca the Younger

Everything may happen.

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Consider an enemy may become a friend.

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Do what you should, not what you may.

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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.

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Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.

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However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.

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The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes…

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Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

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The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of…

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Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is…

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I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of…

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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down…

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What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.

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The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they…

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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so…

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A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in flesh, and may be the blessing of…

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Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that…

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There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension,…

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All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that…

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The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a…

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I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes.…

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It is man's duty to live in conformity with the divine will, and this means, firstly, bringing his life into line with…

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It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why…

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We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our…

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There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than…

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Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long…

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The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no…

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