Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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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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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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