When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
SENECAIt is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
More Seneca Quotes
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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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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You are your choices.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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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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Life is long, if you know how to use it.
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If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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