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Quotations by Seneca

The 15 quotations by Seneca, each linked to the position it expresses.

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A sacred spirit dwells within us, the observer and guardian of our good and our evil.
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Cease to hope and you will cease to fear... the two march in step: anxiety follows hope.
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Every day I plead my cause before myself... What fault of yours have you cured today?
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He who has learned to die has unlearned slavery.
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It is easier to banish dangerous passions than to govern them.
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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it.
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It is not the man who has little, but the one who craves more, that is poor.
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Misfortune is virtue's opportunity.
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No wise man punishes because a wrong has been done, but so that no wrong be done again.
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The highest good is a mind that despises the gifts of chance and takes joy in virtue.
On the Happy Life, IV
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The maker and ruler of all things himself wrote the decrees of fate, but he follows them: he ordained once, he obeys forever.
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The wise man loses nothing through any loss, for he carries all his goods within himself.
On the Constancy of the Wise Man, V
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We are members of one great body... nature made us kin, begetting us from the same principles and for the same ends.
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Would you call it fate? You will not be wrong. Would you call it providence? You will speak rightly. Would you call it nature? You will not sin.
Natural Questions, II, 45
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