No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
No era is closed to great intellects. Nullum saeculum magnis ingeniis clausum est.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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