Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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