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Great Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
- It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
- A great fortune is a great slavery.
- The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall…
- Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of…
- It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.
- A great mind becomes a great fortune.
- The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
- He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
- Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.
- We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that…
- The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not…
- His head was turned by too great success.
- Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than…
- It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige…
- Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
- Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
- A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
- [During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way…
- Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is…
- There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
- Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent
- Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we…
- We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.
- How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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