Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

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• If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
• Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
• A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
• When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
• If you wished to be loved, love.
• As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
• 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…
• Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
• Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
• It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
• The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
• Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
• A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
• There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
• Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
• There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
• As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
• Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
• The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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