The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPersistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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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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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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