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Rather Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
- It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters.
- ...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…
- Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
- That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
- Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura
- You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
- I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
- We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright…
- 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…
- Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
- Men trust their eyes rather than their ears; the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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