No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody becomes guilty by fate.
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There’s one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.” “True happiness is … to enjoy the present” “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
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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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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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