Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVirtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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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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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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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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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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