Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA great fortune is a great slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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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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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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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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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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