It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
SENECAEnjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.
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Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.
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Find a path or make one.
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Money has never yet made anyone rich.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
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Life is long, if you know how to use it.
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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.
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A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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As was his language so was his life.
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He is most powerful who governs himself.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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After death there is nothing.
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If you don’t know, ask. You will be a fool for the moment, but a wise man for the rest of your life.
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He who is brave is free.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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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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Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
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