No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Every journey has an end.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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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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