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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#insignificant #nobody #people #satisfies #success

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#cheerfully #fingers #give #grace #hesitation

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consult #counsel #especially #friend #his

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#ends #everywhere #foreign #friends #having

I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#consider #hair #i #just #myself

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man... It is more powerful than external circumstances. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#difficulties #does #labor #mind #strengthen

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#matter #meeting #opportunity #preparation

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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