Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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