More from Seneca
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
SenecaSeneca We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
SenecaSeneca As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
SenecaSeneca The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
SenecaSeneca 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.
SenecaSeneca Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SenecaSeneca Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
SenecaSeneca There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
SenecaSeneca He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
SenecaSeneca Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SenecaSeneca Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SenecaSeneca He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
SenecaSeneca You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
SenecaSeneca No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
SenecaSeneca It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
SenecaSeneca It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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Someone rejected you does not mean you are not worthy. Maybe they can’t afford to be with you.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson I will love you from afar it’s better this way because close up it hurts too much.
Melissa AndersonMelissa Anderson Maybe if you hold me tight, our love won’t be as shallow.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi Sometimes a person is in peace & in the piece at the same time.
Jessica CollinsJessica Collins Between day and night there was a moment of silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland But doesn’t it hurt to feel so much and pretend not to?
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Admire your sweet way of glowing; your passionate way of flowing.
Ana SoulfulAna Soulful Darling, you are a warrior, for even though each day feels like a battle, you keep fighting and live on.
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I’m looking for the teacher who is simple enough to be great, and great enough to be simple.
Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels Charm is the great English blight. It does not exist outside these damp islands. It spots and kills anything it touches. It kills love; it kills art; I greatly fear, my dear Charles, it has killed you.
Evelyn WaughEvelyn Waugh The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac There’s only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
Evelyn WaughEvelyn Waugh I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.
Salman RushdieSalman Rushdie The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding