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Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Learn how to feel joy.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor.
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If you would judge, understand.
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What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.
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He that by harshness of nature rules his family with an iron hand is as truly a tyrant as he who misgoverns a nation.
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The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure if any one returns it, that is clear gain if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
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He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.
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Every one has time if he likes. Business runs after nobody: people cling to it of their own free will and think that to be busy is a proof of happiness.
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Slavery holds few men fast the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Life's neither a good nor an evil: it's a field for good and evil.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
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