The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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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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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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