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Would you know what makes men greedy for the future? It is because no one has yet found himself. - Seneca
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – A.D. 65), often known simply as Seneca, or Seneca the Younger, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and humorist. He was the son of Seneca the Elder.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Seneca the Younger
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the Younger Seneca
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Lucio Anneo Seneca
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Annaeus Seneca
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior
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L. Annæus Seneca
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger
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"What," say you, "are you giving me advice? Indeed, have you already advised yourself, already corrected your own faults? Is this the reason why you have leisure to reform other men?" No, I am not so shameless as to undertake to cure my fellow-men when I am ill myself. I am, however, discussing with you troubles which concern us both, and sharing the remedy with you, just as if we were lying ill in the same hospital.
We must admit, however, that neither wild beasts nor any other creature except man is subject to anger: for, whilst anger is the foe of reason, it nevertheless does not arise in any place where reason cannot dwell. Wild beasts have impulses, fury, cruelty, combativeness: they have not anger any more than they have luxury: yet they indulge in some pleasures with less self-control than human beings.
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