His head was turned by too great success.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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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 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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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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