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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

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"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."

"Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing."

"To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power."

"Every reign must submit to a greater reign."

"It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters."

"Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue."

"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

"Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."

"That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution."

"Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them."

"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."

"We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."

"We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation."

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

"Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war."

"No untroubled day has ever dawned for me."

"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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