Seneca the Elder Quotes

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

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  Love Yourself, Acceptance, Loving Yourself

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• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

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  Inspirational, Hurt, Fear

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• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Passion

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

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  Philosophical, Punishment, Persons

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• Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

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  Motivational, Philosophical, Mind

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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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  Inspirational, Powerful, Philosophical

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• A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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  Party, Philosophical, Two

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Men

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• It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

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  Silence, Speech, Great Things

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• Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

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  Inspirational, Failure, Change For The Better

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• 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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  Limits, Firsts, Wealth

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

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  One Day, Add, Each Day

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

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  Kings, People, Politics

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• Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

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  Adversity, Brave, Faces

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

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  Race, Hands, Giving

  "Controversiae". Book 1, Chapter 1, sect. 14. Translation from Norman T. Pratt "Seneca's Drama", p. 140, 1983.

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

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  Inspirational, Long, Example

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• The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

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  Mind, Unlearn

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• You can end love more easily than you can moderate it.

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  Love, Ends, Moderates

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• If you want to be loved, love.

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  Life, Love Life, Want

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

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  Men, Knows

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• Nothing is our except time.

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  Time

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• To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

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  Mean, Safety, Doe

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• Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

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  Forgiveness, Anger, Half

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

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  Force

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• If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.

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  Wish, Fear Nothing, Fear Not

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