How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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