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Thinking Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Everything hangs on one's thinking.
- Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
- When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
- 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…
- Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of…
- If you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life…
- Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
- He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
- It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will…
- No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
- 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…
- The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
- Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and…
- It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
- Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
- Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
- A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
- What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
- Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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