The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck never made a man wise.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Time discovers truth.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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