Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.