If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
SENECAIt is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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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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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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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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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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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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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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Life is long, if you know how to use it.
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