Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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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How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
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Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.
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I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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