That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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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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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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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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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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