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 YOUNGERIt is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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