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
Cannot
Cultivation
May
Productive
Without
Soil
Mind
Fruit
Good
However
Never
Produce
Rich
Culture
More quotes by Seneca the Younger
It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
Seneca the Younger
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
Seneca the Younger
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Seneca the Younger
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
Seneca the Younger
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.
Seneca the Younger
Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.
Seneca the Younger
We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
Seneca the Younger
Consult 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.
Seneca the Younger
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
Seneca the Younger
Death is sometimes a punishment, often a gift to many it has been a favor.
Seneca the Younger
It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully.
Seneca the Younger
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
Seneca the Younger
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Seneca the Younger
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
Seneca the Younger
Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
Seneca the Younger
Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.
Seneca the Younger
Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it let him who has received one, proclaim it.
Seneca the Younger
Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
Seneca the Younger
We have been born under a monarchy to obey God is freedom.
Seneca the Younger
Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.
Seneca the Younger