Seneca
Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright
Lived from: 5 - 65
Category: Politics | Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary)
Quotes 41 till 60 of 182.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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For greed all nature is too little.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.
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Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself.
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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He who is brave is free.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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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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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Epictetus
Plotinus
