Who timidly requests invites refusal.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Every journey has an end.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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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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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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