Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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