Seneca the Younger Quotes

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What physician can heal his patient on a flying visit?

Seneca the Younger
There is no easy way to the stars from the earth.
In Latin: Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.

Seneca the Younger
Not even medicine can master incurable diseases.

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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

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No man is so utterly dull and obtuse, with head so bent on Earth, as never to lift himself up and rise with all his soul to the contemplation of the starry heavens, especially when some fresh wonder shows a beacon-light in the sky.

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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go a-searching.

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If one of these fires of unusual shape have made its appearance, everybody is eager to know what it is. Blind to all other celestial bodies, each asks about the newcomer; one is not quite sure whether to admire or to fear it. Persons there are who seek to inspire terror by forecasting its grave import.

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A disease also is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

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How many other bodies besides [these comets] move in secret, never dawning upon human eyes? Nor is it for man that God has made all things.

Seneca the Younger
The physician cannot prescribe by letter... he must feel the pulse.

Seneca the Younger