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Better Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.
- Whatever is to make us better and happy God has placed either openly before us or close to us.
- How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable…
- God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all…
- It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
- The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
- We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust…
- Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits…
- Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and…
- Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better…
- He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being…
- It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
- It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
- See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
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