Retire into yourself as much as possible.
SENECAWhat’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
More Seneca Quotes
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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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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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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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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