It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
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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.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
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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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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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