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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.

Seneca the Younger

That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Cause Loss Negligence
Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Favor Silent Speak
What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Made Own Progress
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Color Life Mastery Wisdom
On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Death Known Lying Well
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Philosophical Pilot Storm
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Good Innocence Law
Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Heal Inspirational Reason
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Desire Greater Progress
People do not die – they kill themselves.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Die People Philosophy Themselves
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Help Inspirational Other Positive
The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Land Law People Person
Don’t stumble over something behind you.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Inspiration Motivational Wisdom
Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Existence Ignorance Ignorant Men Wise
How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Darkness Mind Prosperity
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dread Fear Much Unfit

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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