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Seneca the Elder
Historian
Philosopher
Poet
Rhetorician
Writer
Córdoba
Andalusia
Annaeus Seneca maior
Except
Nothing
Time

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For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.
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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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Courage leads starward, fear toward death.
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If you want to be loved, love.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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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 not death we fear, but the thought of it.
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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
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Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
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Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.
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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
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It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.
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You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.
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No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
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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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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
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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 manly to turn one's back on fortune.
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Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.
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