Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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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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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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