As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful villany is called virtue.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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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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Time discovers truth.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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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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