Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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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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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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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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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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