You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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