Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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Epicurus says, “gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it.” And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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While crime is punished it yet increases.
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When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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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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God is near you, is with you, is inside you.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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