Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREvery journey has an end.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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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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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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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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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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