The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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