The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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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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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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One hand washes the other.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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