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Merely Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with…
- If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you…
- The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that…
- Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
- Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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