The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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