"Self-denial is the best riches."
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Seneca the Younger quotes (page 34 of 57)
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"The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way."
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"Long is the road to learning by precepts, but short and successful by examples."
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"The sun shines even on the wicked."
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"There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms."
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"The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life."
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"I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires."
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"God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit."
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"It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods."
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"It is not goodness to be better than the worst."
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"The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself; the soul is in heaven even while it is in the flesh, if it be purged of its natural corruptions, and taken up with divine thoughts, and contemplations."
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"A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man."
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"Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has received one, proclaim it."
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"Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it."
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"I would rather be sick than idle."
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"Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher"
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"The way to good conduct is never too late."
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"The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched."
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"What you think is the summit is only a step up"
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"Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress."
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