When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERFor many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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One hand washes the other.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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