Money has never yet made anyone rich.
SENECANo 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.
More Seneca Quotes
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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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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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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
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Regard a friend as loyal, and you will make him loyal.
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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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What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
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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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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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It is not goodness to be better than the worst.
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Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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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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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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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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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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The path of increase is slow, but the road to ruin is rapid.
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The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
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He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.
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You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.
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Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
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As was his language so was his life.
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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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