Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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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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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Time discovers truth.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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