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In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man was ever wise by chance.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you would judge, understand.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

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One crime has to be concealed by another.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca