There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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