The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTruth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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