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 YOUNGERShall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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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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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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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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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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