I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
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Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC-AD 65) Roman statesman, philosopher, playwright [Lucius Annaeus Seneca]
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
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Utrumque enim vitium est et omnibus credere et nulli.
[For it is both a vice to believe everyone and no-one.]
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The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.
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Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
¶ Epistulae ad Lucilium
The willing, Destiny guides them; the unwilling, Destiny drags them.
¶ Epistulae ad Lucilium
Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.
[The poor one is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more.]
¶ Epistulae morales, II, 6
True happiness is founded upon virtue.
¶ Moral Essays, "On the Happy Life" (16.1), tr. John Basore (1932)
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