The worse a person is the less he feels it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAlthough a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Every journey has an end.
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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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Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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