Seneca the Younger Quotes

• We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

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  Reality, Imagination, Suffering

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Don't stumble over something behind you.

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  Motivational, Wisdom, Inspiration

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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

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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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• 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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• You are your choices.

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  Inspirational, Life, Choices

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• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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  Passion, Character, Night

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

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  Life, Philosophical, Men

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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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• Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

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  Men, Boredom, Suffering

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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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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• Find a path or make one.

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  Path

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• He who asks with timidity invites a refusal.

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  Refusal, Invites, Asks

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• The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

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  Matter, Bears, Things That Matter

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• The best cure for anger is delay.

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  Wisdom, Delay, Cures

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