Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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