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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"Time is the greatest remedy for anger."

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"Mercy often inflicts death."

Mercy
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"As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility."

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"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."

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"Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die."

Inspirational Life Death
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"No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature."

Men Return He Man
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"Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor."

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

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"Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God."

Philosophical Fate Names
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"We have been born under a monarchy; to obey God is freedom."

God Born Monarchy
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"Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?"

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"In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing."

Nature Long Ashes
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"Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works."

Virtue Ifs Values
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"Life is long if it is full."

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"The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace."

Egypt Thieves Pleasure
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"There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit"

Elements Madness Talent
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