The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERGenius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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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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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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Whatever begins, also ends.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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