Seneca

• Seneca

  The best indication of a man’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good.

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  I am content with few, content with one, content with none at all.

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  He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.

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  Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

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  No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

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  Excellence withers without an adversary.

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  You ask what is the proper limit to a person’s wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

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  No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.

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  Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favors you have received.

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  The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

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

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  Ignorance is the cause of fear.

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  He who fears death will always be a slave to anything that can save him from it. True freedom comes from accepting the inevitable and finding peace within it.

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  Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

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  A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

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  You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

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  Throw me to the wolves, and I will return leading the pack.

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  No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

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  However much you possess, there’s someone else who has more, and you’ll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to the exact extent to which you lag behind him.

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  When Zeno received news of a shipwreck and heard that all his luggage had been sunk, he said, Fortune bids me to be a less encumbered philosopher.

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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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  we must, therefore, take a less serious view of all things, tolerating them in a spirit of acceptance – it is more human to laugh at life than to weep tears over it

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  the most important contribution to peace of mind is never to do wrong

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• Seneca

  begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life

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  let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life; let us postpone nothing

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  Excellence withers without an adversary.

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  The mind, when distracted, absorbs nothing deeply.

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  Expecting is the greatest impediment to living – in anticipation of tomorrow, one loses today.

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  No one becomes a laughingstock who laughs at himself

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  we suffer more often in imagination than in reality

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  It was nature’s intention that there should be no need for great equipment for a good life: every individual can make himself happy

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  true nobility isn’t about being better than someone else; it’s about being better than you used to be

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  all things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselves through our disdain for what is easy

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  truth often harms the one who digs it up

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  We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful.

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  A person is as miserable as they think they are.

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  Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

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  life, if well lived, is long enough

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  If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favourable.

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  we suffer more from imagination than from reality

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  If you don’t regard what you have as enough, you will never be happy even if you rule the entire world

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

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• Seneca

  A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

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