The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
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He who is brave is free.
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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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True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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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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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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