Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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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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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Time discovers truth.
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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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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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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.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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One must steer, not talk.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
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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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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
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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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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
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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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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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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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Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
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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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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
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That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
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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 bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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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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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances.
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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
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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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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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What is true belongs to me!
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
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Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
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Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
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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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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
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Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
