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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

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Die People Philosophy Themselves
There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Delight Help Others Support
Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.
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Luck Opportunity Preparation
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Care Dumb Light
He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
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Help Inspirational Other Positive
It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
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Applaude Causes Proof
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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Alcohol Beer Drunkenness View
Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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Alive Death Literature
To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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Bles Life Live Well
But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.
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Friend Mistake True Trust Yourself
His head was turned by too great success.
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Great Success Success
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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Assuming Honor Men
Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
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Dominion Eternal Unjust
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.
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Attachment Esteem Self Thinking

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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