You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
SENECAA good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
More Seneca Quotes
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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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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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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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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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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
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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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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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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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