When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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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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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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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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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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While we are postponing, life speeds by.
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