Seneca
There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it.
SenecaTo wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
SenecaAs the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
SenecaAll things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
SenecaIt is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SenecaFriendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SenecaWe learn not in the school, but in life
SenecaWhy does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams
SenecaIf we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SenecaConsult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
SenecaLet tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
SenecaIt is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die
SenecaLive with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you
SenecaThere is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
SenecaIt is well to be born either a king or a fool
SenecaThat which is never too often repeated, is never sufficiently learned.
SenecaIf one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
SenecaI persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
SenecaIt is the nature of a great mind to be calm and undisturbed.
SenecaIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
SenecaWhy do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
SenecaDifficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SenecaIt is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
SenecaAuthority founded on injustice is never of long duration.
SenecaAll art is but imitation of nature.
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