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Seneca

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• "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
• "He who is brave is free."
• "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
• "Life is like a play: it doesn't matter how long it lasts, but how well it is performed."
• "Life is too short to be wasted on trivial things."
• "True happiness is not needing happiness."
• "Hurry to live well and think that each day is, in itself, a life."
• "Life is too short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future."
• "True happiness is enjoying the present without anxious dependence on the future."
• "True courage is keeping calm amidst chaos."
• "Happiness is a choice, not a result."
• "He who teaches, learns twice."
• "Life is long if you know how to use it."
• "It is in adversity that we learn to know our true friends."
• "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
• "The man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary."
• "Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
• "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
• "For the busy man, no day is long enough."
• "Do not seek to have everyone like you. Your growth may disturb those who wish you to remain always the same."
• "Time reveals the truth."
• "He who teaches, learns."
• "No wind is favorable for the man who does not know where he is going."
• "Difficulties strengthen the mind, just as work strengthens the body."
• "The wise man is immune to chance."
• "What does the uncertainty of the future matter to me? Living well today is enough."
• "It is in conversation that we learn."
• "Nature gave us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself."
• "Fortune favors the prepared mind."
• "Power over oneself is the greatest power."
• "Let your action correspond to your word."
• "Each day is a new life."
• "If you want to be loved, love."
• "A life without purpose is like a ship without a rudder."
• "What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you."
• "Even from an enemy one can learn virtue."
• "The strong man is he who conquers himself, not he who conquers another."
• "It is not necessary to confess sins to God, but to oneself."
• "What you fear is never as bad as your fear."
• "The crowd measures a man by his dress; the wise man, by his heart."
• "The greatest punishment for a person who does evil is not the law, but conscience."
• "All cruelty arises from weakness."
• "Each day that dawns is the first for some and will be the last for others."
• "The body is not a residence, but a lodging, and for a short time."
• "It is not the man who has little, but the man who desires more, who is poor."
• "No wind is favorable for the one who does not know to what port he is heading."
• "It is necessary to learn how to live the whole of life, and, what may surprise you most, it is necessary to learn how to die the whole of life."
• "There is no favorable wind for those who do not know where they are going."
• "The greatest obstacle to life is expectation, which depends on tomorrow and loses today."
• "Life is divided between the useful and the useless."
• "Let us hasten to live: many prevent our good beginning, many hinder us on the journey."
• "A man should feel honored to be his own witness."
• "Benefits are often lost with delay."
• "We learn not for school, but for life."
• "Anger hurts oneself more than others."
• "The greatest wealth is the limitation of desires."
• "Worry less about what others think of you and more about what you think of yourself."
• "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
• "The wise man should travel with his wisdom, not with his possessions."
• "There is no problem so great that it cannot be solved by patience."
• "To learn to suffer is to learn to live."
• "Adversities strengthen the mind, as work strengthens the body."
• "There is no favorable wind for the sailor who does not know where he wants to go."
• "We do not have to wait to begin to live."
• "Obstacles are not to stop us, but to be overcome."
• "Study not to know more, but to know better."
• "Consider yourself perfected only when you have overcome more difficult errors."
• "Man is the artisan of his own happiness and unhappiness."
• "The disciplined mind is more powerful than any external force."
• "In life, the goal is not to dominate others, but to dominate oneself."
• "Time heals what reason cannot."
• "A sound mind cannot be harmed by any adversity."
• "If you do not have a clear goal, any path will do."
• "There is no more faithful servant than time."
• "Progress is not in not falling, but in getting up every time you fall."
• "Life is long enough for the virtuous, but always too short for the vicious."
• "There are more things that scare us than actually harm us, and we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
• "If a man does not know what port he is sailing to, no wind will be favorable to him."
• "A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary."
• "Seek to be happy with little, and you will find much."