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To rule yourself is the ultimate power
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Lucio Anneo Seneca
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You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
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We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
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It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life they live badly who always begin to live.
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Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
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We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. True happiness is ... to enjoy the present It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.
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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? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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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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We have been born under a monarchy to obey God is freedom.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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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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Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
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