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The expression of truth is simplicity.
Seneca the Younger
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
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The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure if any one returns it, that is clear gain if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.
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The best ideas are common property.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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Everything may happen.
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Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.
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Fear drives the wretched to prayer
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Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.
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We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.
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