467 ordspråk av Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca föddes
4 BC och dog
65 - Roman philosopher
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul.
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In war there is no prize for runner-up.
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Injustice never rules forever
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It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have
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It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it
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It has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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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.
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start
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It is easy to escape from business, if you will only despise the rewards of business
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It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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