How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAssociate with people who are likely to improve you.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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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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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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