Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation.
SENECA THE YOUNGERYou can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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A thousand approaches lie open to death.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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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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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
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Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor’s wife – demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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