Seneca Quotes Page 2
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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Imagination |
A wise man never asks what another man serves, for only his actions will speak the truth
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Wise |
The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
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Inspirational Quotes |
The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.
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Destiny |
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity |
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Giving |
Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.
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Attitude |
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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Quotes about Books |
The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive
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Trouble |
There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with.
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Sharing |
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Quotations |
To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
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Wish |
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
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Greatness |
Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant.
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Fate |
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Wealth |
One should count each day a separate life.
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Quotes about Life |
My joy is learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
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Joy |
If you wished to be loved, love.
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Love |
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
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Kindness |
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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Sympathy |
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
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Good |
Time heals what reason cannot.
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Time |
It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
Seneca
Remembering You |
Life’s like a play; it’s not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Age |
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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New Beginnings |
It is not because things are difficult that we do notdare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Dare |
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future |
Time discovers truth.
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Honesty |
A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.
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Positive Thinking |
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