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    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 not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”
    ― Seneca
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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
    “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
    “We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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
    “He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
    ― Seneca
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    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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    Seneca
    “Only time can heal what reason cannot.”
    ― Seneca
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    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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    Seneca
    “As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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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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    Seneca
    “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Seneca
    “Life is long if you know how to use it.”
    ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
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    Seneca
    “There is no genius without a touch of madness.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “While we wait for life, life passes”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “But life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”
    ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life
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    Seneca
    “We learn not in the school, but in life.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Seneca
    “Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Seneca
    “errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: inspirational, wisdom
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    Seneca
    “To be everywhere is to be nowhere.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
    tags: stoicism
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  • #24
    Seneca
    “I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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    Seneca
    “It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca
    tags: risk, venture
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    Seneca
    “He who spares the wicked injures the good.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.”
    ― Seneca
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    Seneca
    “It is more civilized to make fun of life than to bewail it.”
    ― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
    tags: fun, hardship, inspirational, life, stoic, stoicismism
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    Seneca
    “The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.”
    ― Seneca
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  • #30
    Seneca
    “There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with”
    ― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
    tags: friendship
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