Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTo the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Luck never made a man wise.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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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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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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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 customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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