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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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You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere.
You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.
No man ought to glory except in that which is his own.
Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.
We are all chained to fortune: the chain of one is made of gold, and wide, while that of another is short and rusty.
Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.
Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.
Who vaunts his race, lauds what belongs to others.
Things ’twas hard to bear ’tis pleasant to recall.
He who, when he may, forbids not sin, commands it.
Light cares speak out, the weighty have no words.
Who can be forced has not learned how to die.
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
No easy way leads from the earth to heaven..
Not circumstance but will can make impure.
Small the grief is that can counsel take.
Whoever complains about the death of anyone, is complaining that he was a man. Everyone is bound by the same terms: he who is privileged to be born, is destined to die.
These actions are not essentially difficult; it is we ourselves that are soft and flabby.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
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