Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger) (c. 4 BC–AD 65) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist.
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- He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.
- On Benefits, Book II, 22, line 1
- Might makes right
- Hercules Furens
- Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
- Hercules Furens, Book I, 1, line 84
- A good mind possesses a kingdom.
- Thyestes, 380
- The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius
- He who profits by drime commits it.
- Medea
- He who does not prevent crime when he can encourages it.
- Troades
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Epistles
- Tanta stultitia mortalium est.
- Translation: What fools these mortals be.
- 1, line 3
- It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- 2, line 2
- Love of bustle is not industry.
- 3, line 5
- Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
- 10, line 5
- The best ideas are common property.
- 12, line 11
- Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.
- 22, line 17
- A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.
- 30, line 3
- Man is a reasoning animal.
- 41, line 8
- That most knowing of persons–gossip.
- 43, line 1
- It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
- 45, line 1
- You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
- 52, line 12
- Nothing is so certain as that the evils of idleness can be shaken off by hard work.
- 56, line 9
- All art is but imitation of nature.
- 65, line 3
- It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
- 84, line 13
- It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
- 88, line 45
- Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
- 95, line 1
- We are mad, not only individualy, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
- 95, line 30
- A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
- 123, line 3
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Moral Essays
- Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes uiros.
- Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
- On Providence, 5, line 9
- Time discovers truth.
- On Anger, 2, line 22
- Whom they have injured they also hate.
- On Anger, 2, line 33
- I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the man.
- On the Happy Life, 2, line 2
- There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- On Tranquility of the Mind, 17, line 10
- A great fortune is a great slavery.
- To Polybius on Consolation, 6, line 5
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Attributed
- All cruelty springs from weakness.
- Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
- A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand.
- He whom you call your slave sprang from the same stock, is smiled upon by the same skies, and on equal terms with yourself breathes, lives and dies.
- It is foolish to stop in the middle of a crime.
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