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Work Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of…
- God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all…
- Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
- ...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…
- We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more…
- The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
- Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of…
- Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation...
- Lay hold of today's task, and you will not depend so much upon tomorrow's.
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