If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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