120 Famous Quotes by Seneca
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Seneca
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About Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was later forced to commit suicide for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors, he may have been innocent. His father was Seneca the Elder and his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus.
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The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.
Glutton
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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? -Seneca.
Heart-quotes
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No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
Loss
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetus, c 200 AD -Seneca.
Materialism
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
Mob
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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.
Money
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Sensuality
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A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -Seneca.
Stress
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No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
Will
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