For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREpicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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