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Seneca

Quotes by Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and tutor to Emperor Nero.

Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.

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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

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No man is free who is not master of himself.

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Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

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We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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