Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Modesty forbids what the law does not. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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