He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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What view is one likely to take of the state of a person’s mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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Men learn while they teach.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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