Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERNo man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
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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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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)
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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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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won’t make the crooked straight.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.
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A great fortune is a great slavery.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.
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