The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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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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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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