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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – A.D. 65), often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist. He was the son of Seneca the Elder.
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.
Fortune is less severe against those of lesser degree, and God strikes what is weak with less power.
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
If you judge, investigate, if you reign, command.
No man can live a happy life, or even a supportable life, without the study of wisdom.
That is the utterance of the greatest of physicians, that life is short and art long.
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.
The whole concord of this world consists in discords.
For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
For I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
What new thing then is it for a man to die, whose whole life is nothing else but a journey to death?
This is what happens when you hurry through a maze; the faster you go, the worse you are entangled.
The shifting hour flies with doubtful wings; nor does swift Fortune keep faith with anyone.
Any one may take life from man, but no one death; a thousand gates stand open to it.
Fortune is gentle to the lowly, and heaven strikes the humble with a light hand.
No one has had gods so favourable to him that he can promise himself a morrow.
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