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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Life, if you know how to use it, is long; but…many, following no fixed aim, shifting and… dissatisfied, are plunged by their fickleness into plans that are ever new; some have no fixed principle by which to direct their course.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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