He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
SENECAHang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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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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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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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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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
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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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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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