The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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