Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
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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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Time discovers truth.
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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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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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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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If you would judge, understand.
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
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The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.