Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.