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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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“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.”
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“Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.”
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“The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.”
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“Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
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“All art is but imitation of nature.”
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“A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.”
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“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”
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“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
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“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”
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“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”
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“A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.”
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“Where fear is, happiness is not.”
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“Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.”
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“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
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“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
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“I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?”
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“Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.”
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“God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.”
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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.”
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“It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.”
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“So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.”
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“Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.”
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“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
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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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