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Seneca the Elder

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Seneca the Elder
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Córdoba
Andalusia
Annaeus Seneca maior
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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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It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.
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Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
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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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The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
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Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
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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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The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
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No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
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It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
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Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
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If you want to be loved, love.
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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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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
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Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
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Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.
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