For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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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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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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