Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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