Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
SENECA THE YOUNGERAs the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
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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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In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune’s habit of behaving just as she pleases.
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You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.
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He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.
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[During difficult times and after mistakes and failures it is helpful to remember …] Oftentimes calamity turns to our advantage and great ruins make way for greater glories.
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To live is not a blessing, but to live well.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Injustice never rules forever.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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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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