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Seneca

Seneca

Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright

Lived from: 5 - 65

Category: Politics | Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary)

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  • We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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  • What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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  • What is true belongs to me!
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  • What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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  • What once were vices are manners now.
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  • What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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  • What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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  • Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
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  • Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
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  • When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
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  • When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
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  • When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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  • Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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  • Where the fear is, happiness is not.
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  • Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness
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  • While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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  • Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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  • Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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  • Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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  • You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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