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Quotations by author » Seneca
Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD
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Many a man has found the acquisition of wealth only a change, not an end of miseries
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Many have gone through life merely accumulating the instruments of life. Consider individuals, survey men in general: there is none whose life does not look forward to the morrow. 'What harm is there in this?' you ask. Infinite harm; for such persons do not live, but are preparing to live. They postpone everything.
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Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.
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March to the battlefield, The foe is now before us; Each heart is Freedom's shield, And heaven is shining o'er us.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own
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Modesty forbids what the law does not.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return
Modesty
Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.
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Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Self-control
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach
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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
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Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
Night
No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated
Action
No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
Discipline
No good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it.
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No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
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