The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERProsperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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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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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Men learn while they teach.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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