Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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If you wished to be loved, love.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
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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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If you judge, investigate.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.