Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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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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One crime has to be concealed by another.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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The part of life which we really live is short.
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When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.
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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.
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Whatever begins, also ends.
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Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
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True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.
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Life is long if you know how to use it.
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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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Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.
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