Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSlavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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