Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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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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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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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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Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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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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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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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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Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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