To govern was to serve, not to rule.
SENECABe not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
More Seneca Quotes
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Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.
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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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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over 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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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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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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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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A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
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All cruelty springs from weakness.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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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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