Roman - Statesman | 5 BC - 65 AD
The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Do everything as in the eye of another.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.
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For greed all nature is too little.
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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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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
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