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Seneca the Younger on Anniversary

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An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them. In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.

Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day.

In the great inconstancy and crowd of events, nothing is certain except the past.

No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

True love hates and will not bear delay.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.

For love of bustle is not industry – it is only the restlessness of a hunted mind.

Better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. (Free translation).

He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.

The swift hour flies on double wings.

Infinita est velocitas temporis quæ magis apparet respicientibus.
The swiftness of time is infinite, which is still more evident to those who look back upon the past.

Friendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm

No man can suffer both severely and for a long time; Nature, who loves us most tenderly, has so constituted us as to make pain either endurable or short.

The one loves to do good, the other to do harm; the one to help even strangers, the other to attack even its dearest friends.

Mankind is born for mutual assistance, anger for mutual ruin: the former loves society, the latter estrangement.

If you wish to be loved, love.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Seneca the Younger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.