Quotes by Seneca

Seneca

Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright

Alive from: 5 BC - 65 A.D.

Category: Politics | Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary)

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  A great fortune is a great slavery.

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  Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.

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  A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

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  Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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  Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

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  Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

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  It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

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

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  It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

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  That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

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  What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

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  A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

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  A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

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  A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

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  A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.