The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPersistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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