Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDesultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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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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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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