Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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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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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Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution.
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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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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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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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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He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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The sun also shines on the wicked.
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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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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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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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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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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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