When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Freedom can’t be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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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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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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