"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and……" — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find."
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36 Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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,…
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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…
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