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Certain Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
- Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying…
- So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.
- It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
- 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…
- Certain laws have not been written, but they are more fixed than all the written laws.
- Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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