Seneca the Younger Quotes About Evil
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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There is no evil that does not offer inducements. Vices tempt you by the rewards which they offer.
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It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.
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The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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No evil is without its compensation.
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A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
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The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.
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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 a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.
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There is no evil without its compensation.
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Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.
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The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
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To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.
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The worst thing about getting old is evil men cease to fear you
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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