"For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves."
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Seneca the Elder quotes (page 2 of 3)
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"Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death."
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"What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough."
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"No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him."
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"All art is an imitation of nature."
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"It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in excess."
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"Malice drinks one-half of its own poison."
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"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."
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"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing."
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"The sun also shines on the wicked."
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"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
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"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."
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"The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back"
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"If you want to be loved, love."
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"No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us."
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"Courage leads starward, fear toward death."
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"Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear."
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"The great soul surrenders itself to fate."
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"There's some end at last for the man who follows a path; mere rambling is interminable."
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"No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition."
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