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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More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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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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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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After death there is nothing.
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