There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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That which has been endured with difficulty is remedied with delight.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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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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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Men learn while they teach.
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We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given laws to the conquerors.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
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