Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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After death there is nothing.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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