Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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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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