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Do what you should, not what you may.
Seneca the Younger
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Seneca the Younger
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Córdoba
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
the Younger Seneca
Lucio Anneo Seneca
Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.
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Those alone are wise who know how to love.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
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What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others the right way to gather is to scatter.
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There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.
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Everything may happen.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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One hand washes the other.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The Germans, a race eager for war.
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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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A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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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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Men learn while they teach.
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