The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
SENECAHe who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
More Seneca Quotes
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Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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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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If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
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You are your choices.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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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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It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.
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He who is brave is free.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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