The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
SENECABe silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
More Seneca Quotes
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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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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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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You are your choices.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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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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