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Seneca

Seneca

Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright

Lived from: 5 - 65

Category: Politics | Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary)

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  • That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
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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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  • 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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  • The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
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  • The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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  • The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
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  • The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
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  • The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
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  • The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.
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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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  • 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 foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
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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 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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  • The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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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.
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  • The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
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  • The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
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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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