Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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