A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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