Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGERI am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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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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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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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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