Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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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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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Men learn while they teach.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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