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“That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.”
“The wish for healing has always been half of health.”
“Every sin is the result of a collaboration.”
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable”
Contributed by: Maria Green
Seneca
“Wealth is the slave of wise man. The master of a fool.”