It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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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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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Wisdom 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.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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