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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
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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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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
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Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtues.
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I do not trust my eyes to tell me what a man is: I have a better and more trustworthy light by which I can distinguish what is true from what is false: let the mind find out what is good for the mind.
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We are not children twice, as the saying is, but for ever; the difference is that we play bigger games.
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"What," say you, "are you giving me advice? Indeed, have you already advised yourself, already corrected your own faults? Is this the reason why you have leisure to reform other men?" No, I am not so shameless as to undertake to cure my fellow-men when I am ill myself. I am, however, discussing with you troubles which concern us both, and sharing the remedy with you, just as if we were lying ill in the same hospital.
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You won't be surprised that diseases are innumerable—count the cooks.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Man's highest good is attained if he has fulfilled the good for which nature designed him at birth. And what is it which this reason demands of him? The easiest thing in the world — to live in accordance with his nature. But this has turned into a hard task by the general madness of mankind.
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What physician can heal his patient on a flying visit?
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Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Fire tries gold, misfortune tries brave men.
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Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.
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Non est ad astra mollis e terris via. There is no easy way to the stars from the earth.
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That most knowing of persons – gossip.
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The mathematical is, so to speak, a superficial science; it builds on a borrowed site, and the principles by aid of which it proceeds, are not its own...
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A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.
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My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.
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If one of these fires of unusual shape have made its appearance, everybody is eager to know what it is. Blind to all other celestial bodies, each asks about the newcomer; one is not quite sure whether to admire or to fear it. Persons there are who seek to inspire terror by forecasting its grave import.
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Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful if one follows patterns.
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Seneca the Younger
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Born:
4 BC
Died:
65 AD
(aged 69)
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature.
Known for:
Phaedra
Oedipus
Medea
Agamemnon
Octavia
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