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

Seneca the Younger

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
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Death Punishment Suicidal
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
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Example Luxury Mischief People
If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
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Goal Men Wind
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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Affection Coal Squares
The state of that man’s mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.
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Future Men Mind
A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.
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Fear Light Philosophical
In every good man a God doth dwell.
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Good Man Very
If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
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Fear Thing Think
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
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Evil Real Suffering
Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.
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Motto Nature Stoic
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
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Action Destination Honor
I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.
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Bestnow Kindness Recieve
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Chance Hatred Wrath
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
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
Let the weary at length possess quiet rest.
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Length Quiet Weary

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