"Now we are not merely to stick knowledge on to the soul: we must incorporate it into her; the soul should not be sprinkled with knowledge but steeped in it."
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Seneca the Younger quotes (page 42 of 57)
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"Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge."
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"It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men."
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"Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware."
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"Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves; solitude relieves us when we are sick of company, and conversation when we are weary of being alone, so that the one cures the other. There is no man so miserable as he that is at a loss how to use his time"
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"Know thyself; this is the great object."
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"He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him."
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"Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual."
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"There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!"
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"We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor."
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"To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-"
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"All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up."
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"The profit on a good action is to have done it."
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"You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself."
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"Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement."
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"He who fears from near at hand often fears less."
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"Fine conduct is always spontaneous."
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"If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so."
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"The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!"
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"Simple is the language of truth."
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