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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• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  If you judge, investigate.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  If you would judge, understand.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

• Lucius Annaeus Seneca:

  That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.