There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
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What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Luck never made a man wise.
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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Men learn while they teach.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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