It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
SENECAHe who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
More Seneca Quotes
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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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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There is no genius without a touch of madness.
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Speech is the mirror of the mind.
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Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
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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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Retire into yourself as much as possible.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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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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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
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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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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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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 is most powerful who governs himself.
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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 a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
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One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
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Life is long, if you know how to use it.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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