Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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One hand washes the other.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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