Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREven after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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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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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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