When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no genius without a mixture of madness.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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If you judge, investigate.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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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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One who’s our friend is fond of us; one who’s fond of us isn’t necessarily our friend.
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