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Than Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
- The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
- Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
- The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
- That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
- 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…
- Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
- There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
- It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
- See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
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