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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Roman Statesman

Died: 65 AD

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There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Reality Apprehension More Than Often Us Suffer Alarm Things Harm

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great Genius Madness Great Genius Some Touch Without Existed Ever

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Today Tomorrow Living Impediment Greatest Loses Anticipation Expecting

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Adversity Appreciation Prosperity Become Our Destroys Wiser Right

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Wise People Men Way See Something Both Observation Wise Men Beyond Non-Existence Existence Middle Transcends Either Them Ignorant Ignorant People

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Good Long Matters Tale How

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Trust Conservatives Liberals

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Angry Anger Part Sinners Sins Mankind Large Large Part

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man Action Risk He Himself Which Urges Who Wary

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man Wind Seeks He Knows Any Harbor Right

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Mind Difficulties Does Labor Body Strengthen

You learn to know a pilot in a storm. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You Pilot Know Learn Storm

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You Long Main Main Thing Well How Lived Thing

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remember Bear Sweetest Hardest Things

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Knowledge First Step Sin First Step Person Salvation

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life Man Laugh More Over Over It Fitting Than Lament

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great Mind Sign Great Mind Excess Greatness Prefer Dislike Measure Things

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You Will Wish Had Got Ask

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Heart Discipline Evil Human Heart Propensity Powerful Subdued May Human

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. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Harvest Bad Must Sowing After Even

In war there is no prize for runner-up. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

War Runner-Up Prize

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Good Advice Those Well Good Advice Ill Who

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You Think Enraged Consider Would He Die Any Should Dispute

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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