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Besides, he who follows another not only discovers nothing but is not even investigating.
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God is near you, with you, and in you. Thus I say, Lucilius: there sits a holy spirit within us, a watcher of our right and wrong doing, and a guardian...
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Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
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Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy; even if some obstacle arise, it is but like an intervening cloud, which floats beneath the sun but never prevails against it.
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
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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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He who, when he may, forbids not sin, commands it.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
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What then? Shall I not follow in the footsteps of my predecessors? I shall indeed use the old road, but if I find one that makes a shorter cut and is smoother to travel, I shall open the new road. Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides. Truth lies open for all; it has not yet been monopolized. And there is plenty of it left even for posterity to discover.
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Behold a thing worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
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Teaching by precept is a long road, but short and beneficial is the way by example.
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It's for the superfluous we sweat.
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Some day there will arise a man who will demonstrate in what region of the heavens comets take their way.
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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 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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Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to be, when our memory shall have perished. The world is a poor affair if it do not contain matter for investigation for the whole world in every age.
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Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation...
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What physician can heal his patient on a flying visit?
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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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Not even medicine can master incurable diseases.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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No man is so utterly dull and obtuse, with head so bent on Earth, as never to lift himself up and rise with all his soul to the contemplation of the starry heavens, especially when some fresh wonder shows a beacon-light in the sky.
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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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