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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA thousand approaches lie open to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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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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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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