Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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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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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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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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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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