Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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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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Men learn while they teach.
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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The language of truth is unvarnished enough.
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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