Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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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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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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