To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.
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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 medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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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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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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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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