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Arms observe no bounds; nor can the wrath of the sword, once drawn, be easily checked or stayed; war delights in blood.
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Vices creep into our hearts under the name of virtues.
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The cause of anger is the belief that we are injured; this belief, therefore, should not be lightly entertained. We ought not to fly into a rage even when the injury appears to be open and distinct: for some false things bear the semblance of truth. We should always allow some time to elapse, for time discloses the truth.
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A small debt makes a man your debtor; a large one, an enemy.
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The much occupied man has no time for wantonness, and it is an obvious commonplace that the evils of leisure can be shaken off by hard work.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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Our minds must have relaxation: rested, they will rise up better and keener. Just as we must not force fertile fields (for uninterrupted production will quickly exhaust them), so continual labor will break the power of our minds. They will recover their strength, however, after they have had a little freedom and relaxation.
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Once again prosperous and successful crime goes by the name of virtue; good men obey the bad, might is right and fear oppresses law.
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Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.
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That most knowing of persons – gossip.
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Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Just as we suffer from excess in all things, so we suffer from excess in literature; thus we learn our lessons, not for life, but for the lecture room.
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Virtue runs no risk of becoming contemptible by being exposed to view, and it is better to be despised for simplicity than to be tormented by continual hypocrisy.
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If one doesn't know his mistakes, he won't want to correct them.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
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Pain is an inconsiderable thing if not reinforced by opinion.
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This is the worst trait of minds rendered arrogant by prosperity, they hate those whom they have injured.
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The old Romans had a custom which survived even into my lifetime. They would add to the opening words of a letter: "If you are well, it is well; I also am well." Persons like ourselves would do well to say. "If you are studying philosophy, it is well." For this is just what "being well" means. Without philosophy the mind is sickly.
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What is wisdom? Always desiring the same things, and always refusing the same things.
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Friendship is always helpful, but love sometimes even does harm.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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The vulgar bark at men of mark, as dogs bark at strangers.
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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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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Impurity is caused by attitude, not events.
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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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