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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Seneca the Younger

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.
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Ambition Know Mind
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Help Intelligence Mediocrity
Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Continue Dream Indulge Men
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
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Fate Guides Inspirational
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
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Fate Men Wish
Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
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Feel Philosophical Real
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.
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Feeling Forgiveness Innocent
It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
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Light might People
Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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Alcohol Drink Insanity
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
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Adversity Men Unhappy
While crime is punished it yet increases.
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Crime Increase Prison
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
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Freedom Men Simplicity
Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.
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God Superstitions Worship
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
SENECA THE YOUNGER

Courage Fall Wisdom
The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.
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Consistency Deed

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