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We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "A great mind becomes a great fortune."
A great mind becomes a great fortune. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings of. Hecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That wasindeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must..."
We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand Lucius Annaeus Seneca
His eyes blaze and sparkle, his whole face is crimson with blood that surges from the lowest depths of the heart, his lips quiver, his teeth are clenched, his hair bristles and stands on end, his breathing is forced and harsh, his joints crack from writhing, he groans and bellows, bursts out into speech with scarcely intelligible words, strikes his hands together continually, and stamps the ground with his feet; his whole body is excited and performs great angry threats; it is an ugly and... Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good..."
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and..."
It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca quote: "He who has great power should use it lightly."
He who has great power should use it lightly. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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