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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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What with our hooks, snares, nets, and dogs, we are at war with all living creatures, and nothing comes amiss but that which is either too cheap or too common and all this is to gratify a fantastical palate.
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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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A man who has taken your time recognises no debt yet it is the one he can never repay.
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One hand washes the other.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.
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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
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True love hates and will not bear delay.
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Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.
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The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Those alone are wise who know how to love.
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves
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Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it.
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Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.
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