It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
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Quotes by Seneca
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The greatest man is he who chooses the right with the most invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heavest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and courage in adversity.
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
Old age is an incurable disease.
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.
There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.
The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success.
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
To greed, all nature is insufficient.
He who injured you was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare yourself.
It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
Laws do not persuade because they threaten.
The first art of a monarch is the power to endure hatred.
Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
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