We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo live is not a blessing, but to live well.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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