Successful villany is called virtue.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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