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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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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
Would not anyone who is a man have his slumbers broken by a war-trumpet rather than by a chorus of serenaders?
Besides, he who follows another not only discovers nothing but is not even investigating.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
Fabius Verrucosus called a favor roughly bestowed by a hard man, bread made of stone.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.
The conclusion is, not that hardships are desirable, but that virtue is desirable, which enables us patiently to endure hardships.
We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for.
It is too late to be on our guard when we are in the midst of evils.
The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.
A good judge condemns wrongful acts, but does not hate them.
Nothing lasts forever, few things even last for long: all are susceptible of decay in one way or another; moreover all that begins also ends.
Do you want to know how it is not a great benefit to give life like this? You could have exposed me; clearly it was an injustice to have begat me!
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
No man expects such exact fidelity as a traitor.
For no man is free who is a slave to his body.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
And yet life, Lucilius, is really a battle.
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