Drunkenness doesn’t create vices, but it brings them to the fore.
SENECA THE YOUNGEROne must take all one’s life to learn how to leave, and what will perhaps make you wonder more, one must take all one’s life to learn how to die.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none
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Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium
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Be harsh with yourself at times.
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Misfortune is the test of a person’s merit.
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Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.
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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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If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.
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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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Who-only let him be a man and intent upon honor-is not eager for the honorable ordeal and prompt to assume perilous duties? To what energetic man is not idleness a punishment?
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It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.
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Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.
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