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 YOUNGERPeople do not die – they kill themselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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One hand washes the other.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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