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If you want to be loved, love.

Seneca the Elder

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Seneca the Elder
Historian
Philosopher
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Córdoba
Andalusia
Annaeus Seneca maior
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
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There's some end at last for the man who follows a path mere rambling is interminable.
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Nothing is our except time.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
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For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
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Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
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He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.
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Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
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We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary and, second, to have what is enough.
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You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
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