If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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After death there is nothing.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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