When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThat day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Disease is not of the body but of the place.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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