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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Seneca
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Seneca
A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.
Seneca
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
Seneca
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples.
Seneca
If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
Seneca
'Tis the first art of kings, the power to suffer hate.
Seneca
If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
Seneca
All the Good of mortals is mortal.
Seneca
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
Seneca
Whenever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.
Seneca
Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Seneca
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Seneca
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
Seneca
No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.
Seneca
The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can.
Seneca
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Seneca
A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
Seneca
Fire tries gold, misfortune tries brave men.
Seneca
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
Seneca
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.
Seneca
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
Seneca
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