Life without literary studies is death.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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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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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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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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