His head was turned by too great success.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe fearful face usually betrays great guilt.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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Although 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.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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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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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to pay it, and to do it without asking, too; for whether the creditor be good or bad, the debt is still the same.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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