Tag: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca