Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
SENECAIt is not goodness to be better than the worst.
More Seneca Quotes
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As was his language so was his life.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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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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Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
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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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The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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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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What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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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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Find a path or make one.
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To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy.
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Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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After death there is nothing.
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To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
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If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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We learn not in the school, but in life.
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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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There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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