The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
SENECAWhat need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
More Seneca Quotes
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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Retire into yourself as much as possible.
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What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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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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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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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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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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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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