The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
Seneca the YoungerNo one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
Seneca the YoungerThere is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!
Seneca the Younger