It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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To the stars through difficulties.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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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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