There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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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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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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He who is brave is free.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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After death there is nothing.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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