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Knowledge Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
- Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
- Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
- 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…
- The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
- 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…
- It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing.
- Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
- Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . .…
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