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Most Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.
- Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
- Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they…
- In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,…
- As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever…
- The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the…
- Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
- The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given…
- Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
- Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
- We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.
- He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is…
- Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels…
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