You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.
SENECA THE YOUNGERHow much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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If you wish to be loved, love.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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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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He who is brave is free.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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