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Grief Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
- The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
- Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and…
- Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb
- That grief is light which can take counsel.
- Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
- It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
- Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.
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