As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuch as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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