The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To the stars through difficulties.
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Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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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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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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