Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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