Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIn every good man a God doth dwell.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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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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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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