Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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All art is but imitation of nature.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
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He who is brave is free.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.
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The young man must store up, the old man must use.
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If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
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Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man’s power to live long.
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Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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