Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
SENECATo win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
More Seneca Quotes
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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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 man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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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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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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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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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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