The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDeath is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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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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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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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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To the stars through difficulties.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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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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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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