Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
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When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
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If you wished to be loved, love.
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world…
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
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