When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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