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Famous Quotes
Quotes by Seneca
- True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
- We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
- We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
- We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
- What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
- When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
- Where fear is, happiness is not.
- While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
- Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
- Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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