Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAll my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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