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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Seneca?
→ Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
→ To perceive is to suffer.
→ Natural abilities are like natural plants, they need pruning, by study.
→ Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
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Pick the quote attributed to Seneca.
→ It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
→ Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
→ If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
→ Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Select the quotation attributed to Seneca.
→ We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
→ To govern is to serve, not to rule.
→ Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
→ Life is made up of marble and mud.
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One of these may be attributed to Seneca. Which one?
→ The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
→ Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.
→ If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
→ There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Which one of these belongs to Seneca?
→ Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
→ A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.
→ Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
→ There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Seneca?
→ Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
→ The offender never pardons.
→ How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
→ There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Seneca.
→ This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
→ Tell the truth, but tell it slant.
→ I dwell in possibility.
→ No man was ever wise by chance.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Seneca. Which one?
→ Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.
→ Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.
→ A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
→ Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Seneca?
→ Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
→ It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
→ Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
→ One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Seneca.
→ If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
→ It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
→ Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.
→ One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.
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Looks like Seneca is the author of one of these.
→ If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
→ A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
→ A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
→ The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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Pick the one quotation belonging to Seneca.
→ Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
→ A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
→ A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
→ The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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Which one should be attributed to Seneca?
→ Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
→ A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
→ A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
→ The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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Can you identify which quote belongs to Seneca?
→ Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
→ Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.
→ That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
→ The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
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Select the quote belonging to Seneca.
→ A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
→ One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
→ We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
→ Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
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Choose which quotation belongs to Seneca.
→ Action is easy; thought is hard.
→ Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.
→ When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
→ Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
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Select the quote, which is attributable to Seneca.
→ Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
→ Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
→ If you wished to be loved, love.
→ Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
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Identify the quotation belonging to Seneca?
→ Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
→ Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
→ A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
→ There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
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One of the following quotes belongs to Seneca. Pick one.
→ As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
→ Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
→ The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
→ It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.
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Guess the right quote, which belongs to Seneca.
→ One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
→ If a book is well written, I always find it too short.
→ A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
→ We shall steer safely through every storm, so long as our heart is right, our intention fervent, our courage steadfast, and our trust fixed on God.
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Seneca?
→ Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
→ Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
→ Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case.
→ Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
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Pick the quote attributed to Seneca.
→ The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.
→ It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
→ Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
→ Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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Select the quotation attributed to Seneca.
→ It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
→ To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
→ Those who are of opinion that money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for money.
→ I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.
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One of these may be attributed to Seneca. Which one?
→ All cruelty springs from weakness.
→ Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
→ Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
→ No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
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Which one of these belongs to Seneca?
→ The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.
→ Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
→ A good reputation is more valuable than money.
→ It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.
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Can you identify the right quote belonging to Seneca?
→ Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
→ Music is love in search of a word.
→ I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.
→ Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
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Guess which of these quotes is attributed to Seneca.
→ In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
→ Music is love in search of a word.
→ A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.
→ No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.
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One of the following quotations belongs to Seneca. Which one?
→ Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by over-verification.
→ My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.
→ Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
→ The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
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Can you guess which one of these belongs to Seneca?
→ Distance is a great promoter of admiration!
→ Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
→ Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
→ Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
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Try to identify the quote attributed to Seneca.
→ Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
→ Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
→ Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.
→ Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
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