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Quotes by Seneca

Men learn while they teach.

As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.

True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man to enjoy the present without anxious dependence on the future not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have which is abundantly sufficient.

Man is a social animal.

What once were vices are now manners.

Fire tries gold misery tries brave men.

A good mind possesses a kingdom: a great fortune is a great slavery.

They laboriously do nothing.

There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace for it.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself.

Whatever is well said by another is mine.

Speech is the index of the mind.

The sun shines even on the wicked.

Time discovered truth.

An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.

Vice can be learnt even without a teacher.

The sun also shines on the wicked.