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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERI 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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If you judge, investigate.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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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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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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