Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Quotations
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“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“No man was ever wise by chance.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“In war there is no prize for runner-up.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“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.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“While we are postponing, life speeds by.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“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.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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