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 YOUNGERHe who is brave is free.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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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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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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