When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
SENECA THE YOUNGERPoverty needs much, avarice everything.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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One hand washes the other.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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