Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Ancient Rome
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Philosopher / Statesman

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Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends
Every sin is the result of a collaboration
Every reign must submit to a greater reign
Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment
Every guilty person is his own hangman
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got
Do everything as in the eye of another
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all
Crime when it succeeds is called virtue
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