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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.

Seneca the Younger

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Beginnings Life New Spring
The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Master Slave Tyranny
Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Drunkenness People Vices
There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Blessed Blessing Confidence
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Kind Misery Spiteful
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Dominion Eternal Unjust
The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Future Happiness Life
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Mind Money Rich Sacrifice
Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Counsel Grief Light People
I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Book Mind Together
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.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Learner Library Wander
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Money Philosophical Slavery
What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Men Thrown Ungrateful
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fear Heaven
Go on and increase in valor, O boy! this is the path to immortality.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Life Son Success

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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