Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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What is true belongs to me!
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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.