It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
SENECAWhat’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
More Seneca Quotes
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.
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Find a path or make one.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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He who is brave is free.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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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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The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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