Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGERAlthough a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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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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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Men learn while they teach.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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