Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGERDiligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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 YOUNGERWe have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBegin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
SENECA THE YOUNGERVirtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose griefs burn most which gall in secret.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWho timidly requests invites refusal.
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