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Turns Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- 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…
- 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.
- Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation...
- [During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember ...] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way…
- A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
- It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.
- No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to…
- There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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