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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

Seneca the Younger

There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent
Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Outcome War
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Knowledge Learning Love
In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

God Turn Void Work
Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Although Care Long Men
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Door Find Men Open
One crime has to be concealed by another.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Crime Philosophical Prison
He who has great power should use it lightly.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Leadership Philosophical Vision
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Anger Give Judgement
The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Conscience Foundation Joy True
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Foundation Joy True Vex
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Able Mind Peace Terror
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Element Madness Talent

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