You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA great fortune is a great slavery.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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