Tag: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca