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Luxury Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
- Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
- 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…
- That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
- There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices…
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