Seneca the Elder Quotes
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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When in fear, it is safest to force the attack.
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A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
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All art is an imitation of nature.
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There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
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Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.
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Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest…
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
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To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back
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