May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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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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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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