It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
SENECASometimes even to live is an act of courage.
More Seneca Quotes
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
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After death there is nothing.
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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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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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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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Find a path or make one.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Life is long, if you know how to use it.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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