He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
SENECATime discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
More Seneca Quotes
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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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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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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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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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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