A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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