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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.

Seneca the Younger

Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Assuming Honor Men Prompt
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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Disappointment Office Years
Luck never made a man wise.
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Men Wisdom Wise
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Goal Management Planning
No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Despise Hate Hatred
Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Heard Side Well
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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Life Son Success
Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Brother Mind Wicked
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Excess Pleasure Repetition
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Greatness Men Piece
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Death Joy Men
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Courage Hero Life
Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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Cures Fail Reason
Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Long Use

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