Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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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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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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