A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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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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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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I don’t trust liberals, I trust conservatives.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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