All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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