It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
SENECAA good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
More Seneca Quotes
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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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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He who spares the wicked injures the good.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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After death there is nothing.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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As was his language so was his life.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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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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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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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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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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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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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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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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