A good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
SENECALeisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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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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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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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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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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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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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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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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