Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThose griefs burn most which gall in secret.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Time discovers truth.
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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.
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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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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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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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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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