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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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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.
Your good fortune is not to need good fortune.
No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.
Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes uiros.
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways:
There are times when we ought to die and are unwilling; sometimes we die and are unwilling.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he gives and receives praise.
For love of bustle is not industry – it is only the restlessness of a hunted mind.
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you.
Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
The customs of that most criminal nation have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
An old man in his rudiments is a disgraceful object. It is for youth to acquire, and for age to apply.
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.
Numquam me in re bona mali pudebit auctoris.
All art is but imitation of nature.
If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.
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