When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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After death there is nothing.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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One hand washes the other.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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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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The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
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