Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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