To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-
SENECA THE YOUNGERDrunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.
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One hand washes the other.
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There’s no delight in owning anything unshared.
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Don’t stumble over something behind you.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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Our plans miscarry because they have no aim.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
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Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
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He robs present ills of their power who has perceived their coming beforehand.
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