Seneca the Younger

Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman

Seneca the Younger was a Roman Stoic philosopher known for his writings on ethics and personal conduct, particularly in his work 'Letters to Lucilius'.

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January 1, 2004
Died
January 1, 2065
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"Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain."

Pain Judging Grace
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"We live not according to reason, but according to fashion."

Life Fashion Reason
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"It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god."

God Greatness Men
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"Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money."

Overcoming Fidelity
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"No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal."

Merit Mere
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"Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it."

Men Suffering Ease
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"The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling."

Fate Drag Willing
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"A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver."

Mind Benefits Giver
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"You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind."

Winning Ideas Numbers
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"Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree."

Practice Advice Training
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"The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort."

Luxury Simplicity Effort
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"In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases."

Adversity Giving Teeth
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"What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat."

Nature Sweat Easy
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"Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning."

Hate Hateful Despise
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"The tempest threatens before it comes; houses creak before they fall."

Fall House Tempest
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"He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand."

Foresight
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"To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well."

Bears Habit Impatience
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