Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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