Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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All 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.
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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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Men learn while they teach.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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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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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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If you judge, investigate.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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