Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
SENECALife is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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A good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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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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Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.
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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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As was his language so was his life.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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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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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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