When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhy will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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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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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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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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If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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We have not to talk, but to steer the vessel.
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