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 YOUNGERThere is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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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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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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