Tag: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Life is warfare.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca