Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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