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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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  • I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
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  • The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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  • There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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  • There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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  • There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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