All art is but imitation of nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPrecepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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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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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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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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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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