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Seneca the Elder Quotes

Marcus Annaeus Seneca (54 BC – c. AD 39), often known as Seneca the Rhetorician or Seneca the Elder, was a Roman authority on the history and techniques of oratory.

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It is the sign of a great spirit to be moderate in prosperity.

The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen; this law is universal to the whole human race.

The whole world would have been destroyed if compassion did not put an end to anger.

Some laws are not written, but are more decisive than any written law.

Of a great spirit is moderation in prosperity.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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All things Death claims. To perish is not doom, but law.

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He that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all mankind.

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If you wish to be loved, love.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Seneca the Elder (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.