It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
SENECALuck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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As was his language so was his life.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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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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Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
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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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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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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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Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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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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