Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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After death there is nothing.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Every journey has an end.
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