Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGERBe harsh with yourself at times.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
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That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.
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Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.
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Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.
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Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.
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What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
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He that will do no good offices after a disappointment must stand still, and do just nothing at all. The plough goes on after a barren year; and while the ashes are yet warm, we raise a new house upon the ruins of a former.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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You learn to know a pilot in a storm.
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It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable
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