Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Philosopher
Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist active in the first century CE. His moral essays and letters became foundational texts in Stoic thought.
Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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One must steer, not talk.
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We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
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Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
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Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
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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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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
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If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
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No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.
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