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- An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC), from Seneca the Elder, Controversiae
- It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- The best ideas are common property.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- 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.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD), Epistles
- Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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