The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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Time discovers truth.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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