Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
SENECAMen can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
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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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No good thing is pleasant without friends to share it.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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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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Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms – you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
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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 power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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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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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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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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