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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If you wished to be loved, love.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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For greed all nature is too little.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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All art is but imitation of nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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No man was ever wise by chance.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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He who is brave is free.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The wish for healing has always been half of health.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.Lucius Annaeus Seneca