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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.

Seneca the Younger

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Desirable People Poor
Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Successful Temerity Virtue
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
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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Fact Fundamentals Philosophy
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Crime Prudence Punish
What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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Mind Speech View
Death is a release from and an end of all pains.
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Death Pain Release
This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Home Life Short Spiritual
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Deceive Give Men Return Think
I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Ashame Master Servitude
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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Desire Greater Progress
All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Besetting Down Hands Let Pit

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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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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