Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThere is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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He who is brave is free.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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If you judge, investigate.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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There is more heroism in self-denial than in deeds of arms.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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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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The part of life which we really live is short.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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