Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.
SENECAIf a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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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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You are your choices.
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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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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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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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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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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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