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Other Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
- 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…
- Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
- I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace;…
- I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it…
- One hand washes the other.
- 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…
- Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear…
- 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…
- When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come…
- We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust…
- He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just…
- Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
- You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all…
- This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget…
- Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
- He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being…
- There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in…
- 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…
- Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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