Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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