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The sun also shines on the wicked. — Seneca.

That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence. — Seneca The Younger

And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source. — Seneca.

Everyone goes out of life just as if he had but lately entered. — Seneca.

If you would escape your troubles, you need not another place but another personality. — Seneca.

When we have done everything within our power, we shall possess a great deal: but we once possessed the world. — Seneca.

It is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste a lot of it. — Seneca.

True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

In times of happiness, no point in shaking things up.
But in a time of crisis, the safest thing is change. — Seneca.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity. — Seneca The Younger

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him. — Seneca The Elder

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame. — Seneca The Younger

Simple is the language of truth. — Seneca The Younger

When thou hast profited so much that thou respectest even thyself, thou mayst let go thy tutor. — Seneca The Younger

Man is a reasoning Animal. — Seneca The Younger

He who is everywhere is nowhere. — Seneca The Younger

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault. — Seneca The Younger

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work. — Seneca The Younger

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable. — Seneca The Younger

How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself? — Seneca The Younger

The Germans, a race eager for war. — Seneca The Younger

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. — Seneca The Younger

People do not die - they kill themselves. — Seneca The Younger

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world. — Seneca The Younger

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind. — Seneca The Younger

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds ... — Seneca The Younger

We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness. — Seneca The Younger

Disease is not of the body but of the place. — Seneca The Younger

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. — Seneca The Younger

Know thyself; this is the great object. — Seneca The Younger

That which achieves its effect by accident is not art. — Seneca The Younger

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it. — Seneca The Younger

What you think is the summit is only a step up — Seneca The Younger

Some laws, though unwritten, are more firmly established than all written laws. — Seneca The Younger

Everything may happen. — Seneca The Younger

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty. — Seneca The Younger

So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not Ill-supplied but wasteful of it. — Seneca.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel. — Seneca.

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

While we teach, we learn. — Seneca.

The man who spends all his time on his own needs, who organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day. — Seneca.

To meditate an injury is to commit one. — Seneca The Younger

We live among wicked man through our own wickedness. One thing alone can bring us peace, an agreement to treat one another with kindness. — Seneca.

The happy life is a life that is in harmony with its own nature. — Seneca.

Wisdom comes to no one by chance. — Seneca The Younger

...nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation. — Seneca.

No one willingly reverts to the past unless all his actions have passed his own censorship, which is never deceived. — Seneca.

Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to. — Seneca The Younger

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most. — Seneca The Younger

No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition. — Seneca The Elder

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. — Seneca.

It is for the superfluous we sweat. — Seneca The Younger

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive. — Seneca The Younger

To be everywhere is to be nowhere. - SENECA — Chris Bailey

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. — Seneca The Younger

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish. — Seneca The Younger

A wise man never asks what another man serves, for only his actions will speak the truth. — Seneca.

We shall consider later whether these evils derive their power from their own strength, or from our own weakness. — Seneca.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated. — Seneca The Younger

Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her. — Seneca The Younger

It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching. — Seneca The Younger

The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience. — Seneca The Younger

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know. — Seneca The Younger

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca The Younger

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes. — Seneca The Younger

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty. — Seneca The Younger

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. — Seneca The Younger

Money has never yet made anyone rich. — Seneca The Younger

But the man who is not puffed up in good times does not collapse either when they change. — Seneca.

It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. — Seneca The Younger

Good sides to adversity are best admired at a distance. — Seneca The Younger

It is opportunity that makes the thief. — Seneca The Younger

There is an old adage about gladiators, - that they plan their fight in the ring. — Seneca.

We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful — Seneca.

Speech is the mirror of the mind. — Seneca The Younger

Forgive that you may be forgiven. — Seneca The Younger

All things that are still to come lie in uncertainty; live straightway! — Seneca.

why should I demand of Fortune that she give rather than demand of myself that I should not crave? — Seneca.

Everyone prefers belief to the exercise of judgement. — Seneca.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination. — Seneca The Younger

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power. — Seneca The Younger

Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all. — Seneca.

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity. — Robert A. Burton

The worse a person is the less he feels it. — Seneca The Younger

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

that deed and word should be in accord, that a man should be equal to himself under all conditions, and always the same. — Seneca.

Above all, my dear Lucilius, make this your business: learn how to feel joy. — Seneca.

The one to whom nothing was refused, whose tears were always wiped away by an anxious mother, will not abide being offended.
- De Ira 2.21.6 — Seneca.

We Stoics are not subjects of a despot: each of us lays claim to his own freedom. — Seneca.

Every change of place becomes a delight. — Seneca The Younger

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them. — Seneca The Younger

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it. — Seneca The Younger

The anger of those in authority is always weighty. — Seneca The Younger

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends. — Seneca The Elder

If you want to keep a secret, never share it. — Seneca.

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. — Frederic William Farrar

Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb. — Seneca.

If you judge, investigate. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca