If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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You are your choices.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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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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If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.
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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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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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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 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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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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After death there is nothing.
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