Tag: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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He who is brave is free.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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One must steer, not talk.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca