Seneca

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(248 votes)  Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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(246 votes)  No man was ever wise by chance.

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(240 votes)  One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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(220 votes)  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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(192 votes)  There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude -- confidence in self.

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

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(183 votes)  The sun also shines on the wicked.

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

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(176 votes)  The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

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

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(157 votes)  All cruelty springs from weakness.

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

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(120 votes)  Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

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

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(117 votes)  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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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(117 votes)  That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

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

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(113 votes)  Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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

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(112 votes)  What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

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

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(112 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 to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

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(111 votes)  He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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

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(111 votes)  Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

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

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(107 votes)  No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.

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

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(106 votes)  There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

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

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(106 votes)  When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

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

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(105 votes)  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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4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher

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(105 votes)  Life is warfare.

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

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(104 votes)  It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

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

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(103 votes)  Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

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(102 votes)  He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

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

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(102 votes)  It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

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

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(102 votes)  Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness

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

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(102 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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(101 votes)  Many shed tears merely for show, and have dry eyes when no one's around to observe them.

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

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(99 votes)  If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

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

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(98 votes)  If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

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(97 votes)  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.

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

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(96 votes)  It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

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(96 votes)  Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

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(96 votes)  Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

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(96 votes)  It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

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(95 votes)  What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

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

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(94 votes)  All art is an imitation of nature.

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

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(93 votes)  A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

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

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(93 votes)  The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

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

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(93 votes)  The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

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

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(93 votes)  Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

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

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(92 votes)  A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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

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(92 votes)  Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

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

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(92 votes)  Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

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(92 votes)  Modesty forbids what the law does not.

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

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(91 votes)  The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling.

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

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(90 votes)  Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

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

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(90 votes)  There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

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(90 votes)  Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

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

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(90 votes)  Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

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

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