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 YOUNGERBegin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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He who is brave is free.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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One hand washes the other.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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