There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHe who has great power should use it lightly.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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