The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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