To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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