It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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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.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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