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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

Seneca the Younger

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.
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Learner Library Wander
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
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Honor Justice Loss
The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.
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Men Quality Quantity Wise
You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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Philosophical Pilot Storm
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
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Benefit Birthday Done
The worse a person is the less he feels it.
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Awareness Feels Safety Self
The expression of truth is simplicity.
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Expression Inspirational Simplicity
There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Country Emotion History People Person
Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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Demand Equal Wicked
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
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Anger Life Suicidal
Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Adversity Merit Test
All art is but imitation of nature.
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Art Garden Philosophical
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing.
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Choices Little Struggle
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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Adversity Giving Teeth
The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.
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Hand Men Wise

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