"It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors."
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"It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence”
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"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."
― Seneca
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but
we have been a long time on the way."
― Seneca |
"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality."
― Seneca
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"He who spares the wicked injures the good."
― Seneca
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"Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart."
― Seneca
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"Men do not care how nobly they live, but only for how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long."
― Seneca
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"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire."
― Seneca
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"Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy."
― Seneca |
"The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them."
― Seneca
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"While we wait for life, life passes."
― Seneca
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"To wish to be well is a part of becoming well."
― Seneca
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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."
― Seneca
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"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity."
― Seneca
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"It is quality rather than quantity that matters."
― Seneca
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"There will always be causes for anxiety, whether due to prosperity or to wretchedness. Life will be driven on through a succession of preoccupations: we shall always long for leisure, but never enjoy it."
― Seneca |
"For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them."
― Seneca
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"Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age."
― Seneca
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