For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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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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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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