The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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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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He who is brave is free.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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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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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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One hand washes the other.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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