Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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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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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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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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