The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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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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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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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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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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