The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Men learn while they teach.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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