Seneca

21 quotes

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“If you wished to be loved, love.”

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

“Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death.”

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

“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”

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“If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.”

“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”

“There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.”

“The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.”

“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.”

“It is not goodness to be better than the very worst.”

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

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

“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

“Time discovers truth.”

“Malice drinks one half of its own poison.”

“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”

“Death is sometimes a punishment, sometimes a gift; to many it has come as a favor.”

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

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“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”

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“Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than reality.”