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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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