As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
SENECA THE YOUNGERLuck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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