Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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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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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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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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Whatever begins, also ends.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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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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