The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no genius without a mixture of madness.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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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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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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