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In war there is no prize for runner-up.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Prize
#Runner-Up
#War
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Deal
#Difference
#Great
#Knowledge
#Sin
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Feel
#Good
#Real
#Seek
#Why
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Everywhere
#God
#Nothing
#Void
#Work
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?
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#God
#Life
#My Life
#Thoughts
#World
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Gods
#Telling The Truth
#Truth
#Want
Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Find
#Heart
#Own
#Whatever
#Will
In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Divine
#He
#Perspective
#Victory
#War
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Art
#Aspire
#Endure
#First
#Power
No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Dawned
#Day
#Ever
#Me
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Difficulty
#Learned
#Long
#Mind
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Ambition
#Pride
#Rather
#Than
#Which
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Adversity
#Appreciation
#Our
#Prosperity
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Science
#Strive
#Talent
#Up
#Yourself
Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Light
#Night
#Our
#Rather
#Troubles
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Fear
#Great
#Power
#Service
#Stand
What is true belongs to me!
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Belongs
#Me
#True
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Anger
#Antidote
#Best
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Find
#Great
#Happy Life
#Happy
#Life
One crime has to be concealed by another.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Another
#Concealed
True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#False
#Only
#Praise
#Strong
#True
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Great
#Heart
#Moderation
#Prosperity
What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Difference
#How Much
#How
#Make
#More
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Life
#Mind
#Talk
#Wisdom
#Words
One must steer, not talk.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Must
#Steer
#Talk
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Console
#Fresh
#Grief
#Nothing
#Someone
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Force
#Grow
#Men
#Old
#Sweat
A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Appetite
#Greater
#Liberty
#Part
#Well
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Dreads
#He
#Much
#Too Much
#Who
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Life
#Man
#Quit
#Ready
#True
That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Learned
#Never
#Often
#Too
#Which
Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Collaboration
#Every
#Result
#Sin
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Duty
#Justice
#Master
#Show
#Well
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Fortunate
#Successful
#Virtue
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Back
#Character
#Home
#Never
#Peace
Modesty forbids what the law does not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Does
#Law
#Modesty
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Brave
#Liberty
#Man
#Old Man
#Old
To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Bury
#Keep
#Mean
#Oneself
#Safe
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Age
#Believe
#Days
#Happy
#Me
A great mind becomes a great fortune.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Becomes
#Fortune
#Great
#Mind
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Bad
#Earth
#Fortune
#Good
#Heaven
See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Better
#How
#Off
#See
#Worse
Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Most
#Offensive
#Success
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Care
#Enough
#Lived
#Long
#Should
Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Down
#Fortune
#Height
#She
#Whatever
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Battle
#One Party
#Party
#Quarrel
#Two
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Die
#He
#Should
#Think
#Would
Whatever is well said by another, is mine.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Another
#Mine
#Said
#Well
#Whatever
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Easy
#Nature
#Reach
#Sweat
#Within
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Anger
#Fall
#Like
#Smash
#Those
#Which
He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Fair
#He
#Poverty
#Rich
#Who
No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Himself
#Laughable
#Laughs
#Who
If you would judge, understand.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Judge
#Understand
#Would
#You
Do everything as in the eye of another.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Another
#Everything
#Eye
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#God
#Live
#Men
#Saw
#Speak
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Corrupted
#Mind
#Speech
#Whenever
Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Few
#Hold
#Many
#Take
#Takes
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Dumb
#Light
#Speak
#Struck
#Troubles
If you judge, investigate.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Investigate
#Judge
#You
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Discipline
#Evil
#Heart
#Human
#Powerful
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Succeeds
#Virtue
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Ask
#Got
#Had
#Will
#Wish
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Advice
#Good Advice
#Good
#Well
#Who
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Own
#Respect
#Self-Love
#Your
#Yourself
There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Know
#Never
#Poor
#Rich
#Will
Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Call
#Fate
#Fortune
#God
#Nature
God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Everything
#Fountain
#God
#He
#Universal
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Fear
#Happiness
#Where
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Dead
#Effort
#Nature
#Nothing
#World
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Own
#Person
#Remorse
#Subject
#Who
There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Anything
#Delight
#Owning
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Also
#Another
#Good
#He
#Himself
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#About
#Content
#May
#Mind
#Style
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Better
#Know
#Nothing
#Things
#Useless
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Evil
#Face
#Freedom
#Real
#Suffering
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Injustice
#Kingdom
#Lasts
#Never
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#First Step
#Knowledge
#Person
#Sin
#Step
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Brave
#Evil
#God
#Man
#Work
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
#Good
#Great
#Happiness
#Man
#Wisdom
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#God
#Greatness
#Man
#Security
#True
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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Be Happy
#Being
#Happy
#Truth
#Two
The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Long
#Patterns
#Precepts
#Short
#Way
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Demands
#Desire
#Situation
#Train
#Us
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Favor
#Gift
#Many
#Punishment
#Some
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Doing
#Good
#Greatness
#Mind
#Turn
Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#All Things
#Luxury
#Poverty
#Things
It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Great
#Greatness
#Measure
#Mind
#Things
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Belief
#Every
#Exercise
#Judgment
#Man
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Life
#Men
#People
#Way
#Wise
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#After
#Bad
#Even
#Harvest
#Must
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Adversity
#Good Things
#Good
#Prosperity
I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Conservatives
#Liberals
#Trust
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Boast
#Others
#Owe
#Those
#Who
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#He
#Man
#Miserable
#Thinks
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Does
#Law
#May
#Restrain
#Shame
Life is warfare.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Life
#Warfare
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Bear
#Courage
#Man
#Nothing
#World
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Day
#Every Day
#Night
#Temptation
#Today
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Admire
#Art
#Great Things
#Great
#Man
He has committed the crime who profits by it.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#Committed
#He
#Profits
#Who
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