It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
SENECAMost powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
More Seneca Quotes
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The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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No one can keep a mask on long.
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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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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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Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
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I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn
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Life is long, if you know how to use it.
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Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.
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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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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 gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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