Seneca the Younger Quotes

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Seneca the Younger Quotes

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman

Courageous

“The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.”

Law Land Israel

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman

Calm

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

Tears Sadness Flow

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Nostalgic

“What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.”

Suffering Sweet

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Philosophical

“Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.”

Life Evil

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Courageous

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

Powerful Courage Adversity

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Thoughtful

“A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.”

Long Honesty Solitude

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Courageous

“Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.”

Doe Law

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Rebellious

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

Pride Ambition

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Wise

“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.”

Men Powerful Happiness

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Grateful

“Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.”

Inspirational Life Honor

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Wise

“He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.”

Doe May

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Wise

“He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.”

Men Wise

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