If you wish to be loved, love.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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One hand washes the other.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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