Seneca Quotes

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
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The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
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The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
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It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
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No one can wear a mask for very long.
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
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It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
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Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude - confidence in self.
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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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If you wished to be loved, love.
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Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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He is most powerful who has power over himself.
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Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Time heals what reason cannot.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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One should count each day a separate life.
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Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
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It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Time discovers truth.
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A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
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