Every journey has an end.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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