"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer."
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"While we are postponing, life speeds by. "
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"We learn not in the school, but in life."
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"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body."
― Seneca
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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
― Seneca
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"A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer's hand."
― Seneca
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"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."
― Seneca
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"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
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"Injustice never rules forever."
― Seneca
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"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
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"It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example."
― Seneca
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"What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?"
― Seneca
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"Life is long, if you know how to use it."
― Seneca
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"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful."
― Seneca
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"No man was ever wise by chance."
― Seneca
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"Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older."
― Seneca
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"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."
― Seneca
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"Humanity is the quality which stops one being arrogant towards one's fellows, or being acrimonious."
― Seneca
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"What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life."
― Seneca
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"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."
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"If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable."
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"we cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful."
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"Life is like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters."
― Seneca
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"How many are quite unworthy to see the light, and yet the day dawns."
― Seneca
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"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."
― Seneca
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