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Seneca Quotes

«Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: devote
«No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: dressing, maxims, window dressing
«We never reflect on how pleasant it is to ask for nothing»
Author: Seneca
«A multitude of executions discredits a king, as a multitude of funerals a doctor»
Author: Seneca | About: Funerals | Keywords: discredited, discredits, executions
«Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: recognizable, rules of order
«To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself»
Author: Seneca
«People do not care how nobly they live, only how long, despite the fact that it is within everyone's reach to live nobly, but within no one's reach to live long»
Author: Seneca | About: Living
«Give yourself time and room; what reason could not avoid, delay has often cured»
Author: Seneca
«That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty»
«Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by»
Author: Seneca