What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
SENECABe not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
More Seneca Quotes
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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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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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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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 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 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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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
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After death there is nothing.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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