Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGERA large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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Who timidly requests invites refusal.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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