More from Seneca
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.
SenecaSeneca One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
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Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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