Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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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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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
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Time discovers truth.
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He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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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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