Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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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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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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