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Seneca

Seneca

Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright

Lived from: 5 - 65

Category: Politics | Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary)

  • The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
  • There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
  • 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.
  • Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
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  • It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
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  • Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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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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  • If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
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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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  • Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
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  • So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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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What are the most famous quotes from Seneca?

The two most famous quotes from Seneca are:

  • "It is the superfluous things for which men sweat."
  • "Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

When did Seneca live?

Seneca was born in 5 and died in the year 65.