When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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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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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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