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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#man #more #necessary #suffers #than

It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#dare #difficult #things #venture

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#chronic #console #finds #fresh #grief

Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#creative #dead #effort #everything #living

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#called #cringe #defiance #evil #evils

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#apprehension #harm #more #often #reality

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

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#difference #great #great deal #knowledge #makes

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#better off #consider #how #many #off

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#crimes #most #offensive #success

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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