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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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Philosopher
Playwright
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Córdoba
Andalusia
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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That comes too late that comes for the asking.
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The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
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Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.
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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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His head was turned by too great success.
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We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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Men trust their eyes rather than their ears the road by precept is long and tedious, by example short and effectual.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Every guilty person is his own hangman.
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Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
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It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
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Obedience is yielded more readily to one who commands gently.
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