Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Men learn while they teach.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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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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