Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIndolence is stagnation; employment is life.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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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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Luck never made a man wise.
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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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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