Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGERSet aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Time discovers truth.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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