When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNot how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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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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He who is brave is free.
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No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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