Men learn while they teach.
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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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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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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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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