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Seneca Quotes

«What once were vices are manners now.»
Author: Seneca
«See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.»
Author: Seneca
«Time discovered truth.»
Author: Seneca
«What is true belongs to me!»
Author: Seneca
«It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.»
«It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: superfluous
«In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.»
«Disease is not of the body but of the place.»
Author: Seneca
«Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.»
Author: Seneca
«Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: restraint, severe