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Letter "S" » Seneca Quotes
«The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.»
«Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.»
«It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament over it»
«Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger»
Author: Seneca
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«The willing, Destiny guides them; the unwilling, Destiny drags them»
«A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.»
«No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.»
Author: Seneca
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«It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult»
«The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.»
Author: Seneca
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«To be philosophy's slave is to be free»
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