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.
SENECAReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
More Seneca Quotes
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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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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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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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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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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After death there is nothing.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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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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If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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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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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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