Seneca the Elder Quotes
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
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If you want to be loved, love.
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Nothing is our except time.
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Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
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No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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When in fear, it is safest to force the attack.
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
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Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.
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It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.
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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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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
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Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
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No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.
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It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
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You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
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Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
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Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
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It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
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The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
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What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.
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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 shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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