Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDesultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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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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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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