The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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