Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
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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.
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.
In war there is no prize for runner-up.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
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