He is most powerful who governs himself.
SENECAHe is most powerful who governs himself.
SENECAThe greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
SENECAIt is not goodness to be better than the worst.
SENECAGreat men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
SENECAAnger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
SENECANo one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
SENECAIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
SENECAIt is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
SENECALeisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
SENECAHe who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
SENECAI shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECAHang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
SENECAAll cruelty springs from weakness.
SENECATrue 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.
SENECAThe thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
SENECAEvery new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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