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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 not death we fear, but the thought of it.
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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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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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
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For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
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It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.
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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 courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
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Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.
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Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
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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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Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
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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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Let us be brave in the face of adversity.
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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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The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
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You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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