Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWe have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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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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Luck never made a man wise.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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