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“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
Seneca
“True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
“If you wished to be loved, love.”
“Time discovers truth.”
“Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.”
“It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.”
“True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future; not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears, but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is abundantly sufficient”
“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
“One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.”