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It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Greatness, What Matters

Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow.

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Death, Sorrow, Debt

While we teach, we learn.

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Teaching, Learning, Teach

A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.

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Teaching, Learning, Lessons

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

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Inspirational, Reason, Heal

Do the best you can . . . enjoy the present . . . rest satisfied with what you have.

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Satisfaction, Enjoy, Satisfied

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

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Philosophical, Heart, Blame
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

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Philosophical, Mind, Great Minds
"De Clementia". Book by Seneca the Younger,

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.

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Nature, Knowledge, Given
"Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", CXX in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 419-423), 1922.

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

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Delay, Favour, Flight

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

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Goodness, Worst

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

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Kindness, Conquer, Ill

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

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Safe, Steps, Virtue

While we wait for life, life passes

Seneca the Younger
Waiting

Men's language is as their lives.

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Men, Language

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

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Acquisition, Riches, Faults

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

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Mind, Injury, Proof

Luck never made a man wise.

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Wise, Wisdom, Men

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

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Inspirational, Positive, Helping Others

Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.

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Thinking

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Seneca the Younger
Calumny Is, Insult, Insulted
"De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, II. 32, 45 AD.

The best ideas are common property.

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Inspirational, Spiritual, Ideas
"Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

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Grief, Men, Sorrow

What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved

Seneca the Younger
Inspirational, Goal, Mind

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Seneca the Younger
Happiness, Gratitude, Mind

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