Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGERSuccessful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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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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The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.
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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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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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