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Seneca the Younger
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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
the Younger Seneca
Lucio Anneo Seneca
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?
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Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures.
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Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
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For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
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It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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To meditate an injury is to commit one.
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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. [We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!]
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The things that are essential are acquired with little bother it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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He who forbids not sin when he may, commands it
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It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
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