Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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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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One hand washes the other.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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