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Seneca QUOTES

  • As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

  • Where fear is, happiness is not.

  • Life, if well lived, is long enough.

  • Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.



  • For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

  • No man was ever wise by chance.

  • He that does good to another does good also to himself.

  • A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

  • We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

  • When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

  • A man is as miserable as he thinks he is.

  • Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

  • It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

  • It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

  • The wish for healing is the half of health.

  • True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxiety about the future.

  • If you don’t know to which port you are sailing, no wind will be favorable.

  • We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

  • We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

  • Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.


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