Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIf you wish to be loved, love.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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What progress have I made? I am beginning to be my own friend. That is progress indeed
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.
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We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.
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Associate with people who are likely to improve you.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
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His head was turned by too great success.
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People do not die – they kill themselves.
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
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Life without literary studies is death.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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