Luck never made a man wise.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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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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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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