Seneca Quotes

If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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Business Company Evil Far Risk
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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Bitter Calm Comfortable Finding Mind Patience
It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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Difficult Easy Example Goodness Lesson People
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Fools Inspirational Man Slave Wealth Wise
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Beware Himself Man Mask Risk Urgue
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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Book Reading
The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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Depend Expectation Future Live Present Wasted Time
Retire into yourself as much as possible.
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Deep Inspirational One Liner Retirement Yourself
What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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Healing Let Go Sad Suffering Unhappy
The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.
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Finding Gain Problem Solution Strength Success
Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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Discover Healing Reason Time Truth
A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Attitude Convince Himself Man Positive Unhappy
Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Authority Duration Injustice Patience
Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.
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Boredom Future Life Present Rush Suffering
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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Action Courage Healing Inspirational Live One Liner
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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Deal Inspirational Life Moments
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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Enjoyment Future Happiness Present Satisfaction True
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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Adversity Fire Gold Men One Liner Prove
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Consist Doer Done Gift Giving Intention
All cruelty springs from weakness.
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One Liner Spring Weakness
Life is long, if you know how to use it.
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Inspirational Life Long One Liner Value
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Body Difficult Labor Mind Motivational Strength
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistence Deed Wisdom
The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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Blessing Man Satisfaction Wise
Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Acting Excellence Inspirational Length Life Play
Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
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Age Deep Experience Life Old Proof
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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Alive Deep Die Reality Sick

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