Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes."

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"He who has great power should use it lightly."

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"He who has injured thee was stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself."

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"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed."

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"I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling."

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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."

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"A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach."

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"There is no genius free from some tincture of madness."

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"There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it."

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"Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us."

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"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

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