The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTime discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA THE YOUNGERReason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAlthough a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
SENECA THE YOUNGERLet him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe 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.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
SENECA THE YOUNGERGod is near you, is with you, is inside you.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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