The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Luck never made a man wise.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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