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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

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.

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Letting Go, Time, Future

All cruelty springs from weakness.

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Spring, Philosophical, Animal
"On the Happy Life". Essay by Seneca the Younger (58 AD); later published in Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners", p. 174 (in the essay "The Sympathetic Temperment"), 1863.

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today

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Today, Waste, Tomorrow

It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

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Too Late, Never Too Late, Late

God is near you, is with you, is inside you.

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Love

Find a path or make one.

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Path

Time discovers truth. Time heals what reason cannot.

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Time, Time Heals, Reason
Agamemnon 130

The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

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Quiet, Speak, Great Things

The best cure for anger is delay.

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Wisdom, Delay, Cures

As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity.

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Mother, Soul, Looks

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

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Life, Happiness, People

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

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Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

No man ever became wise by chance.

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Wise, Men, Chance

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

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Motivational, Fallen, Higher

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

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Secret, Wish, Firsts

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

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Adversity, Men, Fire

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

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Character, Long, Lapses

To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

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Peace, Mind, Able

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

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Life, Procrastination, Acting

What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.

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Inspirational, Happiness, Sad

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

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Matter, Bears, Things That Matter

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

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Men, Mind, Ability

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

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Gun, Bearing Arms, 2 Amendment
"Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXVII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

Our fears are always more numerous than our dangers.

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Confidence, Courage, Fear

Authority founded on injustice is never of long duration.

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Power, Long, Duration
"Medea". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

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