He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The expression of truth is simplicity.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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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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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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