Seneca

"It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."

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"When one has lost a friend, one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation."

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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."

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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end."

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"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."

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"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

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"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."

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

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"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."

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"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality."

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"If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable."

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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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"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."

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"He who fears death will never do anything worthy of a man who is alive."

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"This is our big mistake: to think we look forward to death. Most of death is already gone. Whatever time has passed is owned by death."

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"Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future."

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"I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you."

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"How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?"

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"People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy."

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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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"He who fears death will never do anything worth of a man who is alive."

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"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

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"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."

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"If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable."

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

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"We should not, like sheep, follow the herd of creatures in front of us, making our way where others go, not where we ought to go."

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"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."

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"You suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

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"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested."

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"Let the mind be disciplined to understand and to endure its own lot; let it have the knowledge that there is nothing which fortune does not dare."

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"So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long."

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"Make peace again with destiny, the destiny that unravels all ties: We are unequal at birth, but are equal in death."

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"Virtue alone affords everlasting and peace-giving joy."

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"Without studying the soul sick."

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"Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing."

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"The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not."

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"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."

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"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one."

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"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away but not that of having had one."

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"True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

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"Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence."

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"It’s 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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"It’s not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it."

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"It’s not that we have a little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it."

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"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."

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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

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"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable."

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

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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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"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."

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"Our relations with one another are like a stone arch, which would collapse if the stones did not mutually support each other, and which is upheld in this very way."

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"Our plans for the future descend from the past."

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"People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt."

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"We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

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"There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed."

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"It is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it."

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"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

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"We suffer more in imagination than in reality."

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"The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest."

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"The more you practice gratitude, the more you see how much there is to be grateful for."

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"Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body."

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"She who is brave is free."

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"People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness, they still remain in his debt."

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"Si vis amari ama."

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"Vengeance wastes a lot of time and exposes you to many more injuries than the first that sparked it. Anger always outlasts hurt."

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"It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it."

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"It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress, and it is while fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence."

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

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"We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them."

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"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

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"Time is the most valuable thing we have, and the one we tend to waste the most."

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

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"There is no great genius without some touch of madness."

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"The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one"

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"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

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"Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life."

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"He who has great power should use it lightly."

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"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."

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

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"They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn."

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"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. 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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"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."

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

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"All cruelty springs from weakness."

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"Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach."

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"He who spares the wicked injures the good."

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"To win true freeedom you must be a slave to philosophy."

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"Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age."

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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

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"What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life."

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

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"No man was ever wise by chance."

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"Floods will rob us of one thing, fire of another. These are conditions of our existence which we cannot change. What we can do is adopt a noble spirit, such a spirit that befits a good person, so that we may bear up bravely under all that fortune sends us and bring our wills into tune with nature’s."

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"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires."

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"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

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"True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future."

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"It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more."

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"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today."

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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body."

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"How much better to heal than seek revenge from injury."

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"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."

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"Only time can heal what reason cannot."

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"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

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"Life is long if you know how to use it."

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"Ignorance is the cause of fear."

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"If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person."

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"The point is not to wish for these adversities, but for the virtue that makes adversities bearable."

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"Inwardly, we ought to be different in every respect, but our outward dress should blend in with the crowd."

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"Here’s a lesson to test your mind’s mettle: take part of a week in which you have only the most meager and cheap food, dress scantly in shabby clothes, and ask yourself if this is really the worst that you feared. It is when times are good that you should gird yourself for tougher times ahead, for when Fortune is kind the soul can build defenses against her ravages. So it is that soldiers practice maneuvers in peacetime, erecting bunkers with no enemies in sight and exhausting themselves under no attack so that when it comes they won’t grow tired."

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"What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed."

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"Cease to hope and you will cease to fear."

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"To be everywhere is to be nowhere."

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"The difficulty comes from our lack of confidence."

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"It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants, but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way."

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"Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool."

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"Where fear is, happiness is not."

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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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"A setback has often cleared the way for more prosperity. Many things have fallen only to rise to more exalted heights."

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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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""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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""Every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end.""

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"As is a tale, so is a life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

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""If you wish to be loved, love.""

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