Seneca Quotes

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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Greatness Intelligence Quiet Speak
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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Alive Book Death Leisure Man
A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Learning Lesson Teaching
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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Inspirational Laugh One Liner Problem
Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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Courage DAngry Fear One Liner Strength
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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Beginning Count Inspirational Life Live Separate
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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Deep Inspirational Knowledge Learning Life Moments
What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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Call Life Need Tears Weep
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
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Courage Dare Difficult Motivational Strength
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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Broken Heart Imagination One Liner Reality Suffering
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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Inspirational Learning Life Live One Liner
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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Exercise Greatness Power Rule Self Control
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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Inspirational Patience Plant Time Tree Wind
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Beginning Break Up Come Ending Inspirational
Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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Failure Fall Inspirational Rise Success
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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Age Birthday Despicable Man Old Proof World
He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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Mad Man Seek Thinking Wisdom Wise
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Enjoyment Future Injure Life Pleasure Present
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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Himself Motivational One Liner Power Powerful
He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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Invitation One Liner Refuse Time
You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
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Deep Desire Fear Immortal Mortal Reality
No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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Flesh Freedom Man Slave
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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Crave Desire Expectation Man Poor
It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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Believe Goodness Inspirational One Liner Worse
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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Beautiful Friendship Quality True Understand
It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Fit Lament Laugh Life Man Over
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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Angry Hurt Injury

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