| 70 Famous Quotes by Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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“We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
Si flenda patimur.]”
Suffering Quotes Source: Agamemnon (665)
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“Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in
war.
[Lat., Gaudent magni viri rebus adversis non aliter, quam fortes
milites bellis.]”
Adversity Quotes Source: De Providentia (IV)
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“Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to
his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy
of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
[Lat., Ecce spectaculum dignum, ad quod respiciat intentus operi
suo Deus. Ecce par Deo dignum, vir fortis cum mala fortuna
compositus.]”
Adversity Quotes Source: Lib. de Divina Providentia
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“If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to
yourself.”
Secrecy Quotes Source: Hippolytus (876)
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“Leave in concealment what has long been concealed.
[Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]”
Secrecy Quotes Source: Oedipus (826)
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“For I do not distinguish them by the eye, but by the mind, which
is the proper judge of the man.”
Judgment Quotes Source: Of a Happy Life (ch. I), (L'Estrange's Abstract)
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“It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways:
He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
[Lat., Nam sera nunquam est ad bonos mores via.
Quem peonitet peccasse, paene est innocens.]”
Repentance Quotes Source: Agamemnon (242)
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“God never repents of what He has first resolved upon.
[Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]”
Repentance Quotes Source: De Beneficiis (VI, 23)
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“The voice is nothing but beaten air.
[Lat., Vox nihil aliud quam ictus aer.]”
Voice Quotes Source: Naturalinum Quoestionum (bk. II)
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“Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good
become the slaves of the impious; might makes right; fear
silences the power of the law.
[Lat., Prosperum ac felix scelus
Virtus vocatur; sontibus patent boni;
Jus est in armis, opprimit leges timor.]”
Crime Quotes Source: Hercules Furens (CCLI)
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“If you judge, investigate; if you reign, command.
[Lat., Si judicas, cognosce; si regnas, jube.]”
Judges Quotes Source: Medea (CXCIV)
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“Poison is drunk out of gold.
[Lat., Venenum in auro bibitur.]”
Poison Quotes Source: Thyestes (III, 453)
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“This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light
of reason, but after the fashion of others.
[Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad
similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]”
Reason Quotes Source: Octavia (act II, 454)
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“To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the
father of his country.
[Lat., Servare cives, major est virtus patriae patri.]”
Patriotism Quotes Source: Octavia (444)
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“He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
[Lat., Id facere laus est quod decet, non quod licet.]”
Praise Quotes Source: Octavia (454)
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“Every change of place becomes a delight.
[Lat., Omnis mutatio loci jucunda fiet.]”
Variety Quotes Source: Epistles (28)
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“The whole discord of this world consists in discords.
[Lat., Tota hujus mundi concordia ex discordibus constat.]”
Contention Quotes Source: Nat. Quoest (bk. VII, 27)
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“How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
[Lat., Quantum caliginis mentibus nostris objicit magna
felicitas!]”
Prosperity Quotes Source: De Brevitate Vitoe (XIII)
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“When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He
overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.
[Lat., Semel profecto premere felices deus
Cum coepit, urget; hos habent magna exitus.]”
Prosperity Quotes Source: Hercules Oetoeus (713)
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“I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
[Lat., Domini pudet non servitutis.]”
Service Quotes Source: Troades (989)
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“A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.
[Lat., Maliuolum solacii genus est turba miserorum.]”
Companionship Quotes Source: De Consolatione ad Marciam (12, 5)
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“[Epicurus] says that you should rather have regard to the company
with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
[Ante, inquit, cicumspiciendum est, cum quibos edas et bibas,
quam quid edas et bibas.]”
Companionship Quotes Source: Epistles (XIX)
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“No possession is gratifying without a companion.
[Lat., Nullius boni sine sociis jucunda possessio est.]”
Companionship Quotes Source: Epistoloe Ad Lucilium (VI)
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“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a
kindness.
[Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]”
Kindness Quotes Source: Thyestes (CCXIV)
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“The first art to be learned by a ruler is to endure envy.
[Lat., Ars prima regni posse te invidiam pati.]”
Royalty Quotes Source: Hercules Furens (CCCLIII)
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