Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What 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?
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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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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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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He who is brave is free.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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