The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
SENECAThe greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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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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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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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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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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