Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAuditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Luck never made a man wise.
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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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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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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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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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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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Life without literary studies is death.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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