Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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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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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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