The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWatch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Men learn while they teach.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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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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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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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 mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Death 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.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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