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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Roman dramatist, philosopher, & politician [more author details]

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Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est): Seneca
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The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.: Seneca
The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.: Seneca
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.: Seneca
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.: Seneca
The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.: Seneca
The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.: Seneca
There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace in it.: Seneca
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.: Seneca
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.: Seneca
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.: Seneca
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.: Seneca
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.: Seneca
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.: Seneca
We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?: Seneca
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.: Seneca
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.: Seneca
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What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.: Seneca
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.: Seneca
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.: Seneca
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