We learn not in the school, but in life.
SENECAWe suffer more in imagination than in reality.
More Seneca Quotes
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Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
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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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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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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.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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A good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
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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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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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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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