Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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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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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.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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