Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERShall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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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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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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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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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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