Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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The chief bond of the soldier is his oath of allegiance and love for the flag.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
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The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
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Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
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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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It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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