Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhen once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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