All Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
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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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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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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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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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True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
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