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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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'Tis the first art of kings, the power to suffer hate.
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
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What once were vices, are now the manners of the day.
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The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.
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Nothing lasts forever, few things even last for long: all are susceptible of decay in one way or another; moreover all that begins also ends.
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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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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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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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For no man is free who is a slave to his body.
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Our lack of confidence is not the result of difficulty. The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence.
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We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples? There are no limits to our greed, none to our cruelty. And as long as such crimes are committed by stealth and by individuals, they are less harmful and less portentous; but cruelties are practiced in accordance with acts of senate and popular assembly, and the public is bidden to do that which is forbidden to the individual.
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That man lives badly who does not know how to die well.
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Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
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If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.
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The pilot... who has been able to say, "Neptune, you shall never sink this ship except on an even keel," has fulfilled the requirements of his art.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains: beyond it our sufferings cannot extend: it restores us to the peaceful rest in which we lay before we were born. If anyone pities the dead, he ought also to pity those who have not been born.
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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You must want nothing if you wish to challenge Jupiter, who himself wants nothing.
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Mercy often means giving death, not life.
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We are all chained to fortune: the chain of one is made of gold, and wide, while that of another is short and rusty.
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Death is neither a good nor a bad thing, for that alone which is something can be a good or a bad thing: but that which is nothing, and reduces all things to nothing, does not hand us over to either fortune, because good and bad require some material to work upon. Fortune cannot take ahold of that which Nature has let go, nor can a man be unhappy if he is nothing.
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Our feeling about every obligation depends in each case upon the spirit in which the benefit is conferred; we weigh not the bulk of the gift, but the quality of the good-will which prompted it.
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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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