A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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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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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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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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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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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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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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