Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERShall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel…You are called in to help the unhappy.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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One hand washes the other.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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