For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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One hand washes the other.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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