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Do what you should, not what you may.

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
Aphorist
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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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
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Every change of place becomes a delight.
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Dissembling profiteth nothing a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue the good become the slaves of the wicked might makes right fear silences the power of the law.
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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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Life is short and art is long.
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Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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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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Prudence and love cannot be mixed you can end love, but never moderate it.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.
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If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Home joys are blessed of heaven.
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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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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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He who does not prevent a crime, when he can, encourages it.
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