A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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