Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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