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Before Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
- The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
- The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect…
- Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
- A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
- Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
- On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the…
- Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
- Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
- It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
- Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has…
- Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
- I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.
- Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die…
- Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
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