Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
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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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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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One must steer, not talk.
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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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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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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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If you wished to be loved, love.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.