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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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Men learn while they teach.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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