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Seneca Quotes
Who is Seneca?
It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly,
but within no man's power to live long.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing to, no wind is favorable.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark,
we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
All art is an imitation of nature.
An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favors you have received.
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose it's chance of wreaking vengeance.
Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favors.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor the body.
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
He who spares the wicked injures the good.
I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
If virtue precedes us every step will be safe.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity.
It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
The best ideas are common property.
We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Life without the courage for death is slavery.
Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
No one can wear a mask for very long.
Not to feel one's mistfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honorable.
One hand washes the other.
One should count each day a separate life.
Speech is the mirror of the mind.
The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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