It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
SENECAThey lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn
More Seneca Quotes
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
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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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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
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You are your choices.
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Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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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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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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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 path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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