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Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca (/?s?n?k?/), was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—humorist of the Silver Age of Latin literature. As a tragedian, he is best-known for his Medea and Thyestes.

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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful ...

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one c ...

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. ...

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of app ...

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the pow ...

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.