It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou learn to know a pilot in a storm.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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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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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Every journey has an end.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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