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 YOUNGERPoverty needs much, avarice everything.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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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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Every journey has an end.
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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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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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