He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
SENECA THE YOUNGERMen do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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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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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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After death there is nothing.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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