When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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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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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
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