How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Every journey has an end.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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After death there is nothing.
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There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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