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Seneca Quotes

«Many a man has found the acquisition of wealth only a change, not an end of miseries»
Author: Seneca
«The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred»
Author: Seneca
«His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: impair, impaired, impairs, self love
«Fame does not always light at random: sometimes she chooses her man»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: at random, chooses
«Everything may happen»
Author: Seneca
«The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: declining
«It has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: boorishness, destitution
«Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: incapacitate, repetition
«What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: enrich, heir, proportioned, starve
«It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him gives me a sort of right to do it»
Author: Seneca