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Seneca Quotes

«Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.»
Author: Seneca
«Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.»
Author: Seneca | About: Living
«Wealth falls on some men as a copper down a drain»
Author: Seneca | About: Wealth | Keywords: copper, coppers, drain
«All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: besetting, climb down, let down
«The pain of a disappointed wish necessarily produces less effect upon the mind if a man has not certainly promised himself success»
Author: Seneca
«So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: Mar
«A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.»
Author: Seneca
«The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: acquisition, miseries
«Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: void of
«One crime has to be concealed by another.»
Author: Seneca