Seneca quotes - page 2

A great fortune is a great slavery. (Seneca)
No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own. View quote
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters. View quote
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you. View quote
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All art is an imitation of nature. View quote
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If you wished to be loved, love. View quote
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. View quote
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood. View quote
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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. View quote
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Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. View quote
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. (Seneca)
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. View quote
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is. View quote
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He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Bear with dignity what you cannot change. View quote
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But how foolish it is to set out one's life, when one is not even owner of tomorrow! View quote
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Friendship always benefits love sometimes injures. View quote
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People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live nobly, but within no one's reach to live long. View quote
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The best ideas are common property. View quote
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. (Seneca)
You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself. View quote
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. View quote
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That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away. View quote
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Old age is an incurable disease. View quote
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Seneca

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Occupation: Roman Writer
Born: 4 BC
Died: 65
Quotes count: 610
Wikipedia: Seneca

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