Seneca The Elder Quotes

#1. Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

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#2. Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.

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#3. When in fear, it is safest to force the attack.

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#4. It is not manly to turn one's back on fortune.

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#5. Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.

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#6. No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

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#7. You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

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#8. It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.

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#9. The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back

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#10. Nothing is our except time.

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#11. He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

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#12. Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

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#13. The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

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#14. No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

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#15. What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

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#16. Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

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#17. If you want to be loved, love.

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#18. No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

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#19. It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat.

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#20. What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

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#21. Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

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#22. For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

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#23. If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

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#24. Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

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#25. It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.

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#26. The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

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#27. Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.

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#28. The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

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#29. The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

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#30. There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable.

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#31. All art is an imitation of nature.

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