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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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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
There is no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate, for it has never been in his power to try himself.
If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another.
The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
Light troubles speak; immense troubles are silent.
Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb.
Frugality, when all is spent, comes too late.
“New friends, however, will not be the same.” No, nor will you yourself remain the same; you change with every day and every hour.
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
Inwardly everything should be different but our outward face should conform to the crowd.
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and courage in adversity.
Every pleasure defers to its last its greatest delights.
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.
Death presses heavily on that man, who, being but too well known to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.
There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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