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Seneca

Seneca

Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright

Lived from: 5 - 65

Category: Politics | Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary)

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  • It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
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  • It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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  • Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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  • Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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  • Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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  • May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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  • Modesty forbids what the law does not.
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  • Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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  • Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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  • Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
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  • No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
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  • No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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  • No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.
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  • No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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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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  • No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
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  • No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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  • Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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  • Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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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.
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