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Seneca the Elder

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Seneca the Elder
Historian
Philosopher
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Rhetorician
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Córdoba
Andalusia
Annaeus Seneca maior
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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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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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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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Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.
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No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
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The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
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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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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
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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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If you want to be loved, love.
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The great soul surrenders itself to fate.
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It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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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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Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.
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It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.
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Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
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