When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
SENECAI shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
More Seneca Quotes
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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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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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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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.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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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 who is brave is free.
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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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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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You are your choices.
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