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The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

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