Roman - Statesman | 5 BC - 65 AD
The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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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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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Every sin is the result of a collaboration.
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Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
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