As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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