The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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