Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
SENECA THE YOUNGEREverything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Successful villany is called virtue.
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One hand washes the other.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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If you judge, investigate.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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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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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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