His head was turned by too great success.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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We are taught for the schoolroom, not for life.
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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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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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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