That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Time discovers truth.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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He who is brave is free.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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