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 YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The sun shines even on the wicked.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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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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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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