Life is long if you know how to use it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt 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.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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He who is brave is free.
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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