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Seneca Quotes

«Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it»
Author: Seneca
«I think to myself how many exercise their bodies, how few their minds»
Author: Seneca
«Man at his birth is content with a little milk and a piece of flannel: so we begin, that presently find kingdoms not enough for us»
Author: Seneca | About: Mankind | Keywords: flannel, flannels, kingdoms, presently
«It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: scenery
«Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.»
Author: Seneca | About: Belief
«It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: The Cure
«Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.»
Author: Seneca
«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.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: mastery, precept
«Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.»
Author: Seneca
«Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.»
Author: Seneca