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Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

Seneca the Younger

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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Darkness Mind Prosperity
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
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Crime Men Require Wisdom Wise
To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.
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Able Mind Peace Terror
What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
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Insane Insanity Men
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Element Madness Talent
Death either destroys or unhusks us. If it means liberation, better things await us when our burden s gone: if destruction, nothing at all awaits us; blessings and curses are abolished.
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Blessing Death Mean
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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Freedom Wisdom Wise
True happiness is…to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
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Happiness Inspirational Motivational
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
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Burn Grief Secret
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
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Life Long Thing Well
As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Country Emotion Humane Long People Person
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
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Anxiety Half More Trouble
That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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End Eternity Fear
It’s unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.
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Period Place Time Uncertain
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Future Way Wisdom
Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Employment Indolence Stagnation

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