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Very Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
- He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of…
- 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…
- No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots…
- 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…
- Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
- It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.
- Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since…
- What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.
- Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.
- Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him?…
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