Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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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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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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