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    Seneca
    “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.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: attitude, gratitude, happiness, inspirational-quotes, satisfaction
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    Seneca
    “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
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    Seneca
    “Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
    ― Seneca
    tags: latin, philosophy, stars
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    Seneca
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Seneca
    “All cruelty springs from weakness.”
    ― Seneca, Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency
    tags: behavior, character, cruelty, weakness
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    Seneca
    “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: common-people, corruption, organized-religion, useful
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    Seneca
    “Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: adversity, challenges, character, inspirational
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    Seneca
    “You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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    Seneca
    “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational
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  • #10
    Seneca
    “If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
    ― Seneca the Younger
    tags: goals
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  • #11
    Seneca
    “Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”
    ― Seneca, The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
    tags: consicousness, dissociation, mind, stoicism, transcendence, zen
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    Seneca
    “It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
    ― Seneca, Natural Questions
    tags: astronomy, diligence, discoveries, disinformation, knowledge, lies, memory, misinformation, propoganda, research, science, time, truth
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    Seneca
    “It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
    tags: employment, life, purpose-of-life, time, usefulness, waste
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    Seneca
    “If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you’re needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
    tags: stress, travel
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    Seneca
    “Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
    tags: philosophy, stoic, stoicism
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    Seneca
    “He who is brave is free”
    ― Seneca
    tags: bravery, courage, freedom, gallantry
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    Seneca
    “No man was ever wise by chance”
    ― Seneca
    tags: philosophy
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    Seneca
    “They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
    ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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    Seneca
    “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
    ― Seneca
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  • #23
    Seneca
    “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
    ― Seneca
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  • #24
    Seneca
    “If you live in harmony with nature you will never be poor; if you live according what others think, you will never be rich.”
    ― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
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  • #25
    Seneca
    “Timendi causa est nescire -
    Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions
    tags: fear, ignorance, knowledge, life
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  • #26
    Seneca
    “Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
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  • #27
    Seneca
    “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”
    ― Seneca
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  • #28
    Seneca
    “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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  • #29
    Seneca
    “Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.”
    ― Seneca
    tags: inspirational, life
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    Seneca
    “People are frugal in guarding their personal property; but as soon as it comes to squandering time they are most wasteful of the one thing in which it is right to be stingy.”
    ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
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