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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

"It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so."

"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."

"For greed all nature is too little."

"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."

"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

"If you judge, investigate."

"If you would judge, understand."

"May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense."

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

"He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule."

"That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned."

"A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty."

"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave."

"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

"But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!"

"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."

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

"The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin."

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