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Adversity
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Advice
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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Age
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As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Alcohol/Alcoholism
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Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Ambition
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It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Ancestry, Ancestors
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Anger
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Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Appearance
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Appreciation
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Architecture
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Art
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All art is an imitation of nature.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Authors & Writing
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When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Books
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
-Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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Bravery
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Books by and about Seneca (Seneca the Elder)