Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECAIt is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
More Seneca Quotes
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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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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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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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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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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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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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 we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Life is long, if you know how to use it.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
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