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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.”
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.”
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“There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.”
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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.”
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“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
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“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
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“A great mind becomes a great fortune.”
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“It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.”
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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.”
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“He who has great power should use it lightly.”
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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.”
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“We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
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“The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.”
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“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
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“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
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“For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.”
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“Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both this is an observation of the Middle Way.”
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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.”
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“The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.”
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“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
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“For greed all nature is too little.”
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“Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.”
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“What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.”
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“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
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“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.”
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