Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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After death there is nothing.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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