Top 500 Seneca the Younger Quotes (2023 Update)
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251. “Away with the world’s opinion of you-it’s always unsettled and divided.”

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252. “A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.”

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253. “Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.”

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254. “Delay not; swift the flight of fortune’s greatest favours.”

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255. “That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.”

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256. “Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.”

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257. “There exists no more difficult art than living.”

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258. “He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.”

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259. “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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260. “The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?”

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261. “The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.”

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262. “If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.”

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263. “The declaration of love may come sooner than expected. Take time before you reciprocate as this may simply be a statement of what they expect from you.”

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264. “That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this – that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.”

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265. “Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.”

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266. “Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.”

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267. “Resistance to oppression is second nature.”

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268. “Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.”

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269. “Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.”

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270. “Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.”

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271. “Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.”

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272. “I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?”

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273. “They who have light in themselves will not revolve as satellites.”

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274. “The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.”

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275. “A great fortune is a great slavery.”

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276. “You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.”

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277. “Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”

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278. “The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.”

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279. “We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.”

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280. “Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.”

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281. “The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.”

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282. “It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.”

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283. “After death there is nothing.”

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284. “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 busy is a proof of happiness.”

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285. “Other men’s sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.”

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286. “While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.”

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287. “True love hates and will not bear delay.”

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288. “It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”

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289. “The expression of truth is simplicity.”

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290. “It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.”

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291. “The rust of the mind is the destruction of genius.”

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292. “Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.”

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293. “No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.”

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294. “Whatever is well said by another, is mine.”

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295. “A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.”

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296. “When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.”

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297. “I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.”

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298. “The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”

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299. “What a great blessing is a friend with a heart so trusty you may safely bury all your secrets in it.”

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300. “Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.”

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