Retire into yourself as much as possible.
SENECAGreat men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
More Seneca Quotes
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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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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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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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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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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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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