Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

Seneca the Younger

• Pleasure
• Lust
• Miserable
• Repentance

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• I was in a convent for a year.

  

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• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Pleasure
  • Lust
  • Miserable