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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

«One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.»
«Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.»
«While we are postponing life speeds up.»
«No man was ever wise by chance.»
«There is no genius without a mixture of madness.»
«You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.»
«Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in a firmness of mind and mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as talk; and to make our actions and words all of a color.»
«The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.»
«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.»
«A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.»

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