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Seneca Quotes

«No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: dawned, untroubled
«Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness»
Author: Seneca | About: Alcohol | Keywords: drunkenness, madness, voluntary
«If thou live according to nature, thou wilt never be poor; if according to the opinions of the world, thou wilt never be rich.»
Author: Seneca
«I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: cite, cited, citing
«As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.»
Author: Seneca | About: Culture | Keywords: cultivation, productive, soil
«If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh»
«Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success»
Author: Seneca | About: Sadness | Keywords: following
«Whom they have injured they also hate»
Author: Seneca | About: Hate | Keywords: injured
«We live not according to reason, but according to fashion»
Author: Seneca | About: Fashion | Keywords: fashion
«Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy»
Author: Seneca | About: Gifts, God, Life