Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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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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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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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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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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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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A great mind becomes a great fortune.
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If you judge, investigate.
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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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Life, if well lived, is long enough.
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
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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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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.