Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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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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He who is brave is free.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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He 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.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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