All cruelty springs from weakness.
SENECALeisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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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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No one can keep a mask on long.
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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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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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