Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERIt’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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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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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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If you judge, investigate.
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There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit
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Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
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Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
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Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him to pieces.
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Light is that grief which counsel can allay.
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law
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He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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