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 YOUNGERTime hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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He who is brave is free.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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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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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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