When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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If 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.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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