Aren't you ashamed to keep for yourself just the remnants..… - Seneca

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Aren't you ashamed to keep for yourself just the remnants...to devote to wisdom only that time which can't be spent on business?

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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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Native Name: Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Alternative Names: Seneca the Younger • the Younger Seneca • Lucio Anneo Seneca • Annaeus Seneca • Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor • Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior • L. Annæus Seneca • Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger

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Let us now enquire whether anger be in accordance with nature, and whether it be useful and worth entertaining in some measure.

Sera parsimonia in fundo est.

Sickness comes, captivity, disaster, conflagration, but none of them is unexpected—I always knew in what disorderly company Nature had confined me.

Aren't you ashamed to keep for yourself just the remnants...to devote to wisdom only that time which can't be spent on business? - Seneca

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