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Been Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of…
- To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
- Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift; to many it has been a favor.
- The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that…
- In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,…
- Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not…
- The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to…
- There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
- No crime has been without a precedent.
- The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given…
- He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just…
- Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future…
- The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the…
- We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom.
- Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
- Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.
- Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration ...
- Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
- He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is…
- There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.
- There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
- The wish for healing has always been half of health.
- No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from…
- It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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