Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
SENECALaugh at your problems; everybody else does.
More Seneca Quotes
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Life is long, if you know how to use it.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
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If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.
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