If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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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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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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