A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROur (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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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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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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