When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Life without literary studies is death.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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