Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPeople do not die – they kill themselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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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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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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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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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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