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As far as I am concerned, I know that I have lost not wealth but distractions. The body’s needs are few: it wants to be free from cold, to banish hunger and thirst with nourishment; if we long for anything more we are exerting ourselves to serve our vices, not our needs.


Seneca

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SENECA Suppose we've chosen the wrong god
SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
SENECA Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
SENECA Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
SENECA Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
SENECA Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
SENECA It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
SENECA One hand washes the other.
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SENECA What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
SENECA If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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SENECA All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
SENECA He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
SENECA He who profits by a crime commits it
SENECA You are your choices.
SENECA Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
SENECA This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
SENECA A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
SENECA Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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SENECA A great fortune is a great slavery.
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SENECA He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another
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SENECA Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
SENECA It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that do...
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SENECA He who is brave is free.
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SENECA Time discovers truth.
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SENECA Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
SENECA While we teach, we learn.
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SENECA To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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SENECA It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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SENECA While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the whe...
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SENECA Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
SENECA It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die
SENECA The best ideas are common property.
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SENECA Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
SENECA Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
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SENECA You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
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SENECA The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
SENECA The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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SENECA He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
SENECA He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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SENECA Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
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SENECA Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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