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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.
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He, who decides a case without hearing the other side, though he decides justly, cannot be considered just.
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Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
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The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.
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There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself for every guilty person is his own hangman.
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The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.
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I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
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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.
Seneca the Younger
Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.
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Man is a reasoning Animal.
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He may as well not thank at all, who thanks when none are by.
Seneca the Younger
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Seneca the Younger
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Seneca the Younger
