Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you judge, investigate.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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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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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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He who is brave is free.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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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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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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