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Biography : Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman (Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: -4 - Died: 65
Period:
1st century
1st century BC
Place of birth: Spain
Spain
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A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 






The language of truth is simple.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 



The language of truth is simple.




Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.




A great part of progress consists in the desire to make progress.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 






If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 



If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

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Let the other side be heard as well.
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live.
Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ / 






While we wait for life, life passes.
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All that is mine I carry with me.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 






Man is a sacred thing for Man.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 






Time reveals the truth.
Seneca - De ira / 






No one can wear a mask for very long.
Seneca - On Mercy / 






Let us see to it that all time belongs to us. This, however, cannot be unless first of all our own selves begin to belong to us.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 






Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 






If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
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There is nothing more important than that we should not, like sheep, follow the flock that has preceded us.
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Philosophy is good advice; and no one can give advice at the top of his lungs.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
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No man is despised by another unless he is first despised by himself.
Seneca - De Consolatione ad Helviam Matrem / 






The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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Light cares speak out, the weighty have no words.
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It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and — what will perhaps make you wonder more — it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ / 






It takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Seneca - De Brevitate vitæ / 






And knows that to win without danger is to win without glory.
Seneca - De Providentia / 






Take courage from this despair.
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Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.
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The assaults of adversity do not weaken the spirit of a brave man. It always maintains its poise, and it gives its own colour to everything that happens.
Seneca - De Providentia / 






I do not withdraw the wise man from the category of man, nor do I deny to him the sense of pain as though he were a rock that has no feelings at all.
Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium / 






Reason wishes to give a just decision; anger wishes its decision to be thought just.
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Yet it is better to accept public morals and human vices calmly without bursting into either laughter or tears.
Seneca - On Tranquility of the Mind / 










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