Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.
SENECA THE YOUNGERThe part of life which we really live is short.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.
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We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it’s past already.
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The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
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No man finds it difficult to return to nature except the man who has deserted nature.
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As long as you live, learn how to live.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
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You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?
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How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
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The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.
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