Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
Seneca the Younger
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Seneca the Younger
Aphorist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Statesperson
Writer
Córdoba
Andalusia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
the Younger Seneca
Lucio Anneo Seneca
Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior
Never
Produce
Rich
Culture
Cannot
Cultivation
May
Productive
Without
Soil
Mind
Fruit
Good
However
More quotes by Seneca the Younger
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it.
Seneca the Younger
The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
Seneca the Younger
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
Seneca the Younger
Other men's sins are before our eyes our own are behind our backs.
Seneca the Younger
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Seneca the Younger
It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
Seneca the Younger
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
Seneca the Younger
Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
Seneca the Younger
The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.
Seneca the Younger
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
Seneca the Younger
Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.
Seneca the Younger
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
Seneca the Younger
If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
Seneca the Younger
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
Seneca the Younger
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
Seneca the Younger
That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
Seneca the Younger
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
Seneca the Younger
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Seneca the Younger
No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca the Younger
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
Seneca the Younger