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People Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
- There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
- When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
- The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall…
- Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The…
- To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
- We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more…
- Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for…
- A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
- Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both;…
- Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.
- People do not die - they kill themselves.
- People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.
- Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell…
- Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be…
- Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
- There are more people abusive to others than lie open to abuse themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today…
- Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
- It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
- Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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