The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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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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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.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Men learn while they teach.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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