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Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
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The anger of those in authority is always weighty.
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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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 who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
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There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.
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Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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Find a path or make one.
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
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The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.
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Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
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A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
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While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.
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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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Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.
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Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
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