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Seneca the Elder has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
• When in fear, it is safest to force the attack.
• A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
• Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
• The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess.
• There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears…

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