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Seneca the Younger quotes (page 33 of 57)
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"We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur"
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"Leave in concealment what has long been concealed."
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"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 wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little."
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"Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces."
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"The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off."
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"A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power."
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"He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct."
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"To rule yourself is the ultimate power"
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"Our Creator shall continue to dwell above the sky, and that is where those on earth will end their thanksgiving."
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"Man is a social animal."
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"Every change of place becomes a delight."
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"The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance."
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"To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country."
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"We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods."
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"Wisdom comes to no one by chance."
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"Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before."
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"No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself."
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"How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well."
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"Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers."
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