Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDiligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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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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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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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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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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Time discovers truth.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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