There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGenius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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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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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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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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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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