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.
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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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 cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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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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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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