Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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He who is brave is free.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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