How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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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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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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No crime has been without a precedent.
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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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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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