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Should Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
- What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or…
- Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.
- Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
- No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
- We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which…
- When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
- Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our…
- On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the…
- 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…
- Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
- He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
- He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is…
- We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood…
- The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
- A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man…
- Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain
- If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
- Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
- We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
- Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.
- Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is…
- 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…
- If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no…
- 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.
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