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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the insanities we commit (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen do torture all the more (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
We need someone, I say, on whom our character may mould itself: you’ll never make the crooked straight without a ruler (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to meet distress? (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn’t consider himself supremely blest (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Reason wishes that the judgment it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgment it has given seem to be just (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
One must take all one’s life to learn how to live, and, what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Our aches and pains conform to opinion. A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Many a man has found the acquisition of wealth only a change, not an end of miseries (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
If you live according to the dictates of nature, you will never be poor; if according to the notions of man, you will never be rich (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
There is nothing more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to produce as a proof that he has lived long except his years (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
It is a shameful and unseemly thing to think one thing and to speak another, but how odious to write one thing and to think another (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
It is the constant fault and inseparable ill quality of ambition never to look behind it (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Nothing is more dishonourable than an old man, heavy with years, who has no other evidence of his having lived long except his age (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
He who has wronged you is either stronger or weaker than yourself: be he weaker, spare him; be he stronger, then spare yourself (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
What is death but a ceasing to b what we were before? We are kindled, and put out, we die daily; nature that begot us expels us, and a better and safer place is provided for us (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
With parsimony a little is sufficient; and without it nothing is sufficient; whereas frugality makes a poor man rich (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Why is there no man who confesses his vices? It is because he has not yet laid them aside. It is a waking man only who can tell his dreams (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
That is the utterance of the greatest of physicians, that life is short and art long (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind, without cultivation, can never produce good fruit (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)
Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin (Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes)