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Seneca

Roman

About Seneca

Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman and dramatist who advised Emperor Nero and was ordered to commit suicide in 65.

Quotes by Seneca

It is best to endure what you cannot mend.
Seneca
Let us balance life's books each day.
Seneca
Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.
Seneca
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling.
Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Seneca
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Seneca

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