Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGERTranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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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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He who is brave is free.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
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Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
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It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
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After death there is nothing.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
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It’s a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
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