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We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.
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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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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.
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
By Lucius Annaeus Seneca