There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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One must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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