A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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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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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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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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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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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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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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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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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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