He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPoverty needs much, avarice everything.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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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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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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If you judge, investigate.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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