There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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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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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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