They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn
SENECANo good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
More Seneca Quotes
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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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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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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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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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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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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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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As was his language so was his life.
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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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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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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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A good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
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