What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
SENECABe wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
More Seneca Quotes
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
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Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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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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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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He who is brave is free.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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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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Find a path or make one.
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