Quotes with seneca

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• Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

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  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

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  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

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  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

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  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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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.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

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  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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• The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

  Seneca
  Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• insignificant
• death-process
• boorishness
• destitution
• acquisition
• disposition

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