Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and playwright known for his works on ethics and moral philosophy.
"Believe me if you consult philosophy she will persuade you not to lit so long at your counting desk."
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"Man is a social animal."
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"Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... In thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is."