The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
SENECASometimes even to live is an act of courage.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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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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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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