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 YOUNGERWe are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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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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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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