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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Seneca's Morals
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Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
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Oedipus
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The surest way for those who want to rule is praising moderation, talking of peace and quiet.
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Oedipus
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Those with false fears deserve real ones.
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Oedipus
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Loyalty gives traitors opportunity.
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Oedipus
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Luck knows no limits.
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Oedipus
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He always reflects concerning the quality, and not the quantity, of his life. As soon as there are many events in his life that give him trouble and disturb his peace of mind, he sets himself free.
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Moral letters to Lucilius
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Moral Essays
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach.
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Letters from a Stoic
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That man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.
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Letters from a Stoic
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Letters
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Light sorrows speak, but deeper ones are dumb.
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Hippolytus
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The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.
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Hercules Furens
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Hercules Furens
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The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the gift is acknowledged; it is the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that is weighed.
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Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
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This is what happens when you hurry through a maze; the faster you go, the worse you are entangled.
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Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Epistles
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A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
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De Brevitate Vitae
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He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
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De Beneficiis
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It matters not whether you place the sick man on a wooden bed or one of gold; wherever you lay him, he carries his disease along with him.
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Day's Collacon
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