Seneca the Younger Quotes

• Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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  Inspirational, Success, Tattoo

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

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  Life, Positive Thinking, Addiction

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• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

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  Reality, Imagination, Suffering

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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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  Wise, School, Men

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• It is 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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  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Don't stumble over something behind you.

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  Motivational, Wisdom, Inspiration

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• The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

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  Important, Gains, Problem

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

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  Wise, Religious, Atheist

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• No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

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  Meaningful, Wind, Roots

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• The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

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  Way, Goodness, Helpfulness

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• The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

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  Today, Waste, Tomorrow

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• You are your choices.

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  Inspirational, Life, Choices

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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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  Adversity, Men, Unhappy

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• Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

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  Men, Groups, Achieve

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• Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

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  Life, Philosophical, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

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  Evil, Worry, Anticipation

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

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  Inspirational, Appreciation, Character

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

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  Inspirational, Learning, People

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

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  Happy, Attitude, Men

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

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  Hate, Crazy, Anger

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He is most powerful who governs himself.

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  Powerful, Most Powerful

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• Find a path or make one.

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  Path

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• It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

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  Encouragement, Choices, Easy

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