Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDiligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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