The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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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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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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