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Man Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
- There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
- Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
- Man is a social animal.
- A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
- You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
- Luck never made a man wise.
- A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary
- It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
- It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
- It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us…
- If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go…
- The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
- There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her…
- The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to…
- 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…
- The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
- Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
- ...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in…
- Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic…
- True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest…
- Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
- What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy…
- The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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