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(1070 votes)  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 talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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(1054 votes)  True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(831 votes)  Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

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(820 votes)  It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(799 votes)  The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(784 votes)  Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(783 votes)  You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(776 votes)  Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(750 votes)  Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(743 votes)  No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(736 votes)  The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(732 votes)  Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(719 votes)  He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(708 votes)  No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(702 votes)  The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(679 votes)  Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(662 votes)  Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(660 votes)  See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(641 votes)  Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(632 votes)  We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(577 votes)  Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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(521 votes)  Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(465 votes)  The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(461 votes)  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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(453 votes)  It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(447 votes)  It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(437 votes)  If you wished to be loved, love.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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(434 votes)  Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(418 votes)  There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

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(416 votes)  Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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(413 votes)  Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(408 votes)  It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(408 votes)  He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(403 votes)  There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(402 votes)  We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(401 votes)  No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(395 votes)  There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(382 votes)  Those who boast of their decent, brag on what they owe to others.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(365 votes)  In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(364 votes)  Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(361 votes)  The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(356 votes)  Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(341 votes)  Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(341 votes)  One crime has to be concealed by another.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(336 votes)  We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

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(334 votes)  Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(321 votes)  There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(318 votes)  That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(318 votes)  What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(314 votes)  If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

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