Seneca the Elder Quotes

• What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

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  Love Yourself, Acceptance, Loving Yourself

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• Si un hombre no sabe a qué puerto se dirige, ningún viento le es favorable.

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  Inspiración, Vida, Hombres

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• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

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  Inspirational, Hurt, Fear

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• No hay persona tan severamente castigada, como la que se somete al látigo de sus propios remordimientos.

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  Philosophical, Punishment, Persons

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• True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

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  Want, True Happiness, Anxious

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• Entrenemos nuestras mentes para desear lo que la situación exige.

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  Motivational, Philosophical, Mind

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• Es una gran cosa saber la temporada para el discurso y la temporada para el silencio.

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  Silence, Speech, Great Things

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• Cada noche deberíamos pedirnos cuentas a nosotros mismos: ¿Qué debilidad he dominado hoy? ¿A qué pasiones me he opuesto? ¿Qué tentación he resistido? ¿Qué virtud adquirida?

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  Inspiración, motivación, pasión

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• La mente tarda en desaprender lo que aprendió pronto.

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  Mind, Unlearn

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• What is the proper limit for wealth? It is, first, to have what is necessary; and, second, to have what is enough.

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  Limits, Firsts, Wealth

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• The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

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  Kings, People, Politics

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• Si quieres que te amen, ama.

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  Vida, Amar la Vida, Querer

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• He who looks for advantage out of friendship strips it all of its nobility.

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  Looks, Advantage, Nobility

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• It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.

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  Race, Hands, Giving

  "Controversiae". Book 1, Chapter 1, sect. 14. Translation from Norman T. Pratt "Seneca's Drama", p. 140, 1983.

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• Unhappy is the man, though he rule the world, who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed. In order to consider himself supremely blessed he must deeply understand that things could be much worse but aren't! To not do that is to always be less happy than he could be.

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  Gratitude, Blessed, Men

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• No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

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  Inspirational, Powerful, Philosophical

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• No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.

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  Ancestry, Birth, Born

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• A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

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  Party, Philosophical, Two

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• The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

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  Inspirational, Long, Example

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• Una vida feliz es aquella que está de acuerdo con su propia naturaleza.

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  Vida, Positiva, Felicidad

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• El fracaso cambia a mejor, el éxito a peor.

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  Inspirational, Failure, Change For The Better

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• Add each day something to fortify you against poverty and death.

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  One Day, Add, Each Day

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• Seamos valientes ante la adversidad.

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  Adversity, Brave, Faces

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• The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back

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  Success, Believe, Winning

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• Nunca me avergonzaré de citar a un mal autor si la frase es buena.

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  Lines, Citing, Ashamed

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