It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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