When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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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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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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