He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you judge, investigate.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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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.
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