Nicholas Ward

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Whether that house is built of sod or of variegated marble from foreign lands is of no significance: believe me, a person can be sheltered just as well with thatch as with gold. Scorn all those things that superfluous labor sets up for decoration and for show: keep in mind that nothing but the mind is marvelous, that to the great mind, nothing else is great.”
Letters on Ethics: To Lucilius (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
by Seneca
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