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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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Men's conversation is like their life.
Adverse fortune seldom spares men of the noblest virtues. No one can with safety expose himself often to dangers. The man who has often escaped is at last caught.
The voice is nothing but beaten air.
The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged...
It [Philosophy] does not pay attention to pedigree. All, if their first origin be in question, are from the Gods.
Better to have loved and lost, than not to have loved at all. (Free translation).
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it is his own.
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life.
The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man’s ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
It is the act of the indolent not to know what he may lawfully do. It is praiseworthy to do what is becoming, and not merely what is lawful.
This is the worst trait of minds rendered arrogant by prosperity, they hate those whom they have injured.
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
If one doesn't know his mistakes, he won't want to correct them.
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
The shortest way to wealth is through the contempt of wealth.
That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.
A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.
For sometimes it is an act of bravery even to live.
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