That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREnjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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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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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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