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.
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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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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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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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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